Gores can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| gore - wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | ||
| gore - cut into gores; "gore a skirt" | ||
Noun |
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| gore - a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | ||
| gore - coagulated blood from a wound | ||
| Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) | ||
| gore - the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen" |
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| 1. | verb | Gore a skirt. | |
| 2. | verb | "In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand." | |
| 3. | verb | Both hands are labouring the fierce knots to pull; / black gore and slime his sacred wreaths distain. / Loud are his moans. | |
| 4. | verb | Methought I saw poor Hector, as I slept, / all bathed in tears and black with dust and gore, / dragged by the chariot and his swoln feet sore / with piercing thongs. | |
| 5. | verb | Foul is his beard, his hair is stiff with gore, / and fresh the wounds, those many wounds, remain, / which erst around his native walls he bore. | |
| 6. | verb | We fly / where round the palace rings the war-shout's rallying cry. / There raged a fight so fierce, as though no fight / raged elsewhere, nor the city streamed with gore. | |
| 7. | verb | At his heels, aflame / with rage, comes Pyrrhus. Lo, in act to aim, / now, now, he clutches him, – a moment more, / e'en as before his parent's eyes he came, / the long spear reached him. Prostrate on the floor / down falls the hapless youth, and welters in his gore. | |
| 8. | verb | "Now die!" – So speaking, to the shrine he tore / the aged Priam, trembling with affright, / and feebly sliding in his son's warm gore. / The left hand twists his hoary locks; the right / deep in his side drives home the falchion, bared and bright. | |
| 9. | verb | "See, on the citadel, all grim with gore, / red-robed, and with the Gorgon shield aglow, / Tritonian Pallas bids the conflict roar." | |
| 10. | verb | "Dost thou for this, dear mother, me through fire / and foeman safely to my home restore; / to see Creusa, and my son and sire / each foully butchered in the other's gore, / and Danaans dealing slaughter at the door?" | |
| 11. | verb | Scarce the first stem uprooted, from the wood / black drops distilled, and stained the earth with gore. | |
| 12. | verb | The bride was then sought for. She was found in the corner of the large chimney, having no covering save her shift, and that dabbled in gore. | |
| 13. | verb | If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit. | |
| 14. | verb | If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them. | |
| 15. | verb | "In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand." |
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| verb | |
| Gore a skirt. |
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| "In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand." | |
| Both hands are labouring the fierce knots to pull; / black gore and slime his sacred wreaths distain. / Loud are his moans. | |
| Methought I saw poor Hector, as I slept, / all bathed in tears and black with dust and gore, / dragged by the chariot and his swoln feet sore / with piercing thongs. | |
| Foul is his beard, his hair is stiff with gore, / and fresh the wounds, those many wounds, remain, / which erst around his native walls he bore. | |
| We fly / where round the palace rings the war-shout's rallying cry. / There raged a fight so fierce, as though no fight / raged elsewhere, nor the city streamed with gore. | |
| At his heels, aflame / with rage, comes Pyrrhus. Lo, in act to aim, / now, now, he clutches him, – a moment more, / e'en as before his parent's eyes he came, / the long spear reached him. Prostrate on the floor / down falls the hapless youth, and welters in his gore. | |
| "Now die!" – So speaking, to the shrine he tore / the aged Priam, trembling with affright, / and feebly sliding in his son's warm gore. / The left hand twists his hoary locks; the right / deep in his side drives home the falchion, bared and bright. | |
| "See, on the citadel, all grim with gore, / red-robed, and with the Gorgon shield aglow, / Tritonian Pallas bids the conflict roar." | |
| "Dost thou for this, dear mother, me through fire / and foeman safely to my home restore; / to see Creusa, and my son and sire / each foully butchered in the other's gore, / and Danaans dealing slaughter at the door?" | |
| Scarce the first stem uprooted, from the wood / black drops distilled, and stained the earth with gore. | |
| The bride was then sought for. She was found in the corner of the large chimney, having no covering save her shift, and that dabbled in gore. | |
| If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit. | |
| If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them. | |
| "In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand." | |