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# gory

«gory» in Mova's school dictionary: **full of blood and violence, often in a film, game or story** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (gory, gorier, goriest); noun gore

### meaning for a pupil

1) Gory means full of blood and violence, often in a film, game or story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#m1)

2) (informal) The gory details are the unpleasant or embarrassing details of something, told fully: «Tell me all the gory details!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used about horror stories, history lessons about battles and Horrible Histories, and film age ratings. In everyday chat «the gory details» is a joke way to ask for every bit of a story. Phrases: «gory details», «a gory film».

### examples

- That film is too gory for children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x1)
- The history book had a gory picture of a battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x2)
- I covered my eyes at the gory part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x3)
- Tell me all the gory details of your camping trip! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x4)
- My brother loves gory zombie stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x5)
- The age rating warns that the game is gory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x6)
- Horrible Histories tells the gory side of the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x7)
- The fox left a gory mess in the chicken run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gory/#x8)

### note

Comparative gorier, superlative goriest. Gore means blood from a wound. Do not confuse with «gaudy» or with «Gorey», a place name.

### In the corpora

- [It was gorier than any of them expected.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/4/)
- [Pretending you are not scared is very common, and many people cover their eyes at gory bits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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