Meaning

14 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

    Blut, geronnenes Blut

    кровь, кровоподтёкkrovopodtjók

    загусла кровzahusla krov

    coagulated blood from a wound

  2. (uncountable, usually)Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.

  3. (uncountable, usually)Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.

  4. (uncountable, usually)Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

  5. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

  6. (US)A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.

  7. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.

  8. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.

    Gehre, Zwickel

  9. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.

  10. A projecting point.

  11. A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.

  12. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Don't let the bull gore you.

  2. My skirt has gores to make it fuller.

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  3. It's awful when a bull gores one of the runners.

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  4. The man was gored by the sheep in the stable.

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  5. The woman was gored by the sheep in the stable.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
thick blood:
Русский
By meaning 1
thick blood:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
thick blood:
triangular patch of fabric:

Origin

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, f

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

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Forms

plural: gores
Singulargore
Pluralgores

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
triangular piece of land where roads meet:neutral areaghost island
Close in meaning
  • a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails:panel
  • Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948):Al GoreAlbert Gore Jr.
  • the shedding of blood resulting in murder:bloodshed

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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