adjective · rare

gory

gory · gorier · goriest

кривавий

кровавый, окровавленный

blutig, mörderisch, blutrünstig

Covered with blood; very bloodyCovered with blood; very bloody.

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UK/ˈɡɔː.ɹi/US/ˈɡɔɹ.i/

» Tom wanted to hear all the gory details.

Meaning

4 senses

Covered with blood; very bloody.
a gory movie
blutig, blutrünstig, mörderisch
крова́выйkrovávyj, окрова́вленныйokrovávlennyj
крива́вийkryvávyj
covered with blood
(informal)Scandalous, and often unpleasant.
Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
(figuratively)Excessively detailed, often boringly so.
(dated, slang)Bloody; pesky.

Examples

6 sentences

Tom wanted to hear all the gory details.
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I don't think really we want to know all the gory details.
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I don't think that really we want to know all the gory details.
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It was pretty gory.
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The detective could not believe his eyes at the scene in his sight, unrecognizable faces amidst a gory mess of flesh.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

covered with blood, very bloody:

Русский

By meaning 1

covered with blood, very bloody:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

covered with blood, very bloody:

Origin

From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clot

From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.

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