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- [gawr, gohr]
- /gɔr, goʊr/
- /ɡɔːr/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [gawr, gohr]
- /gɔr, goʊr/
Definitions of gore word
- noun gore a city in W Ethiopia. 1
- verb with object gore to make or furnish with a gore or gores. 1
- noun gore Blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence. 1
- noun gore blood 1
- transitive verb gore animal: injure with horns, etc. 1
- noun gore bloodshed 1
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Origin of gore
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English gor dung, dirt; cognate with Dutch goor, Old High German gor filth
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Parts of speech for Gore
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
gore popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
gore usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for gore
verb gore
- lance — a male given name.
- gouge — a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
- spear — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- wound — the act of winding.
- stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
noun gore
- blood — Blood is the red liquid that flows inside your body, which you can see if you cut yourself.
- violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
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