Definitions for gores

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gores gore

Spelling: [gawr, gohr]

IPA: /gɔr, goʊr/

Gores is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in gores (egors).

Definitions for gores

noun

1. blood that is shed, especially when clotted.
2. murder, bloodshed, violence, etc.:
3. a triangular piece of material inserted in a garment, sail, etc., to give it greater width or a desired shape. Compare godet (def 1), gusset (def 1).
4. one of the panels, usually tapering or shaped, making up a garment, as a skirt.
5. a triangular tract of land, especially one lying between larger divisions.
6. Albert Arnold, Jr ("Al") born 1948, U.S. politician: vice president of the U.S. 1993–2001.
7. a city in W Ethiopia.

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce with or as if with a horn or tusk.
2. to make or furnish with a gore or gores.

Origin of gores

before 900; Middle English; Old English gor dung, dirt; cognate with Dutch goor, Old High German gor filth

Examples for gores

They appear to see not atrocities but adventure, not gore but glory.

They decapitate those men deemed foes of their faith and celebrate the gore online, holding up the severed heads.

gore could not see, but as he writhed he knew he was in the grip of the pirate captain.

But it did not knock out gore, and Quirl had to pay dearly for his error.

Notice how he says it is gore who rejects “openness” and “peer review.”

He quotes gore Vidal, who said, “You never know when you are happy, you only know when you were happy.”

gore was not concerned with the personal feelings of his prize.

But Quirl was heavier, and his arm harder, than gore had supposed.

No mutilation, no gore; just an effacement—prompt and absolute—'there wasn't any.'

Now gore stands alone in his dismissal of reform, openness, transparency and peer-review to ensure good science.