gore

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As for the gore, there are several great scenes and overall the gore is done extremely well.

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  1. transitive verb To pierce or stab with a horn or tusk.
  2. noun A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.
  3. noun A small triangular piece of land.
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  • I felt the pain, saw the blood, but the flesh underneath the gore was a light, even honey tone, a color I couldn't get unless I had it sprayed on. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • As for the gore, there are several great scenes and overall the gore is done extremely well. —  Fatally Yours
  • If your wondering where all the gore is in the screenshots and trailers, there is none. —  PS3Blog.net
  • While I agree that he's off I'd say it's a harder R than some films you guys are mentioning ... people got exploded ... their chunks hanging from the cieling ... pulp fiction - gore, language, AND man rape history of violence - some gore AND one of the most raw sex scenes ever in an r rated movie exorcist - gore, some language, and cross f***ing
  • While the gore is not up to the standards of today, it is convincing enough to avoid shattering the feeling of creepiness. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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gore:   gored
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English goren, probably from gore, spear, from Old English gār.
  2. Middle English, from Old English gāra, triangular piece of land.
  3. Middle English, filth, from Old English gor.

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  1. from Middle English gore, gorre, mud, filth, from Anglo-Saxon gōr, dung, dirt, = Old High German Middle High German gor, mud, = Icel.Norwegian Old Danish gor, gore, the cud in animals, the chyme in men, = Swedish gorr, dirt, matter, pus, Swedish dial, går, dirt, the contents of the intestines (cf. D). goor, dirty, nasty, rusty, sour, etc.); prob. akin to Icelandic görn, plural garnar, garnir, guts, and further to English yarn, Latin hira, gut, hernia, hernia, Greek χορδή, a string of gut, a cord: see yarn, hernia, chord, cord.
  2. Formerly also goar; = Scots gair, gare, from Middle English gore, gare, a gore of cloth, also a garment, from Anglo-Saxon gāra, a projecting point of land, = OFries. gāre, a gore of cloth, a garment, = Dutch geer, a gusset, gore, = Middle Low German gere, a point of land, a gusset, = Old High German gēro, Middle High German gēre, a wedge-shaped piece of cloth, a promontory, German gehre, a wedge, a gusset, gore, = Icelandic geiri = Norwegian geire = Old Danish gere, a gore of cloth or of land, from Anglo-Saxon gār, etc., a spear: see gar; cf. gar, v.
  3. from gore, n.
  4. Not found in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon, and perhaps formed directly from gore, a projecting point, and only ult. from Anglo-Saxon gār, early Middle English gar, a spear: see gore, gar.
 

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