gore
[noun]
Synonyms: blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, slaughter
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[verb]
Synonyms: pierce, impale, transfix, wound

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

Gore, Al /æl/
(1948–) a US politician in the Democratic Party. He was the Vice President of the US from 1993 to 2001. In 2000 he lost the election for US President even though he had won more votes than George W. Bush. Now he is better known as an environmental campaigner. He appeared in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth which won an Oscar. In 2007 he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

I. gore¹ /ɡɔː $ ɡɔːr/ verb [transitive usually passive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Perhaps from gore, gare 'spear' (11-14 centuries), from Old English gar]
if an animal gores someone, it wounds them with its horns or tusks:
He was attacked and gored by a bull.

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II. gore² noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: gor 'dirt']
[uncountable] literary thick dark blood that has flowed from a wound ⇒ gory:
He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore (=violence).

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