gore

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. (countable, obsolete, usually) A gout or mass of such blood.
3. (uncountable, usually) Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
4. (uncountable, usually) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

Verb

To cover or smear with blood.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pierce with a horn or tusk.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
3. (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To needle or wound the feelings of.

Verb

1. To cut into a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

Synonyms

butt

gusset

crotch

pierce

horn

stab

blood

🩸

thrust

ram

🐏

groin

spear

panel

prick

stick

poke

impale

wound

bloodshed

slash

jab

knife

🔪

knock

lance

lap

penetrate

perforate

pike

pin

piton

protrude

punch

👊

puncture

quoin

scratch

set

sheathe

shim

skewer

slice into

slit

spline

sting

thrombosis

tine

toss

twinge

wedge

stumble over

thrust in

gore 1

Translations

Zwickel

godet

cruor

🩸

Blut

🩸

sangue coagulado

interno coscia

inguine

Leiste

entre-jambes

ingle

sangre

🩸

Keil

sangue rappreso

xwîn

🩸

carnage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɔː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gore

Inherited from Old English: gor

Inherited from Middle English: goren

Inherited from Old English: gāra

In summary

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”).
Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth).