gore

Scenes showing blood, serious injuries, or violent deaths in films, games, or books.

• The film contains too much gore.
• Do you enjoy horror games with gore?
• The director used gore to shock the audience.

Similar words: graphic violence

Common phrases: blood and gore, gore effects, excessive gore

Thick or dried blood from a wound.

• Gore stained his shirt.
• The blade was covered in gore.
• She washed the dried gore from his face.

Common phrases: covered in gore, blood and gore

To injure someone or something by pushing a horn or tusk into them.

• The bull tried to gore him.
• An elephant gored the keeper with its tusk.
• Two spectators were gored during the festival.

Similar words: impale

Common phrases: gore someone, gore an animal

To add a shaped piece of cloth to a garment to make it wider.

• The tailor will gore the skirt.
• She gored the apron to make it wider.
• They gored the dress with matching fabric.

Common phrases: gore an apron, gore a skirt