Word.ws English Dictionary

vore

/vɔː(ɹ)/

vore noun: the genre of creative work appreciated by vorarephiles, involving characters being eaten or swallowed, or any creative works that fall under this category.

Noun

vore (uncountable)

  1. (informal, slang) The genre of creative work appreciated by vorarephiles, involving characters being eaten or swallowed, or any creative works that fall under this category.
    • Me, I like vore and unbirth. But then, I'm strange […]2005, Lord Flame Stryke, “Re: Curious”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet)
    • Many of his videos include the classic vore image of a woman's legs in stockings and high heels sticking out of the mouth of one of his monsters[…]2009, Zack Parsons, Your Next-Door Neighbor Is A Dragon, page 211

Verb

vore (third-person singular simple present vores, present participle voring, simple past and past participle vored)

  1. (informal, slang) To consume or to eat (either in general, or chiefly within the context of vorarephilia).
    • how can i be vored by plants and stuff like that2012 Jan 31, "lucyhotlegs", how can i be vored by plants and stuff like that (on community.secondlife.com)

Proper noun capitalized: Vore

Vore (plural Vores)

  1. A surname.

Forms of vore

Verb
third-person singular presentvores
present participlevoring
past participlevored
pastvored
Proper noun
pluralVores

Origin of vore

Clipping of vorarephilia. Sometimes said to be from -vore or carnivore, however most sources (especially furries and other insider groups) cite the word as being derived from vorarephilia.

From the Norman surname, from Vaux.

Words formed from vore

Phrases with vore

Words that rhyme with vore

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about vore

What does vore mean?
Vore means the genre of creative work appreciated by vorarephiles, involving characters being eaten or swallowed, or any creative works that fall under this category.
What part of speech is vore?
Vore can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vore?
Vore is pronounced /vɔː(ɹ)/.

Words near vore in the dictionary

  1. Vorce cells
  2. Vorces
  3. Vorderer
  4. Vorderman
  5. Vordernberg
  6. vore
  7. voreaphilia
  8. vored
  9. voreing
  10. vores
  11. Vorhies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vore (page history and authors); Vore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vore.wav.

Cite this entry: “vore.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vore. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.