Dictionary Entry

gore

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɡɔː/Used In Literature ↓

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

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Common Phrases

. gorevidal gorehouse goregore algore albertgore president

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Poetry examples for “gore”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Perhaps even Britain's utmost shore
Shall cease to blush with strangers' gore,
See Arts her savage sons control,

So I smote them, and their gore
Stained the roots my myrtle bore;

And the angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

He has given us more
Red gallons of gore
Than all Syria can furnish of wine!

"But if you ask me to restore
Your sacrifices, stained with gore,
Then will I offer human sacrifices!

As from a sudden trumpet's clang:
Meantime my cords were wet with gore, 460
Which, oozing through my limbs, ran o'er;

Discoloured with a lifeless red[bu],
Which stands thereon like stiffened gore
Upon the slain when battle's o'er;

When Cava's traitor-sire first called the band
That dyed thy mountain streams with Gothic gore?[7.B.]
Where are those bloody Banners which of yore

God! the Duke lies stretch'd beside him,
Senseless, weltering in his gore.

There is one man who loves her true,
(Red, O red, is the stain of gore!)
He hath duggen a grave by the darksome yew,