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# gore

«gore» in Mova's school dictionary: **Thick blood from a wound, especially lots of it, as in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (gore — uncountable; a gore, gores — cloth); verb (gore, gores, gored, goring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thick blood from a wound, especially lots of it, as in violent films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#m1)

2) To gore means to wound someone with a horn or tusk: the bull gored the farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#m2)

3) (sewing) A gore is a triangular piece of cloth sewn into a skirt, sail or umbrella to make it wider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and film ratings it tells the reader there is lots of blood and violence; in farm and nature stories, an animal attack with horns. Phrases: blood and gore, gored by a bull, too much gore.

### examples

- The film was too scary, full of blood and gore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x1)
- The farmer was gored by an angry bull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x2)
- The rhino can gore a lion with its horn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x3)
- Horror films are full of gore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x4)
- The skirt has six gores, so it swirls when you spin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x5)
- That video game is rated 18 because of the gore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x6)
- A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x7)

### note

Gore (blood) is uncountable: too much gore. Past of the verb: gored. Do not confuse gory (full of blood) with glory. Al Gore is a name of an American politician.

### In the corpora

- [Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.610/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.