Gory
['gɔːrɪ] or ['ɡɔri]
Definition
(adj.) accompanied by bloodshed; 'this bitter and sanguinary war' .
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Definition
(a.) Covered with gore or clotted blood.
(a.) Bloody; murderous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Bloody, ensanguined.
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Examples
- He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Some women would have been terror-struck to see a gory man brought in over their threshold, and laid down in their hall in the howe of the night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Such a gory, ghastly spectacle would frighten the children out of their senses, I should think. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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