gores

Noun (1)

gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)

1. (usually) Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. (countable, obsolete, usually) A gout or mass of such blood.
   • And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23
3. (usually) Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
   • The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club
4. (usually) Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
5. (usually, obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
   • As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms

Noun (2)

gore (plural gores)

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
   • I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related...

   Synonyms:

   neutral area, ghost island

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