gore

Meaning

Noun

1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
3. Dirt; mud; filth.

Verb

1. To pierce with the horn.
2. (obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

Verb

1. To cut in 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

gore 2

gore 3

antler

coigne

bite

butterfly

🦋

cast

cleave

coign

collide

cut

dart

🎯

disembowel

eviscerate

gash

gouge

gut

hammer

🔨

hit

hook

🪝

incise

inject

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɔː/

Etymology

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