[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/gore/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) / gore

# gore

noun (gore — uncountable; a gore, gores — cloth); verb (gore, gores, gored, goring)

«gore» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Thick blood from a wound, especially lots of it, as in violent films. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#m1)
2. To gore means to wound someone with a horn or tusk: the bull gored the farmer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#m2)
3. (sewing) A gore is a triangular piece of cloth sewn into a skirt, sail or umbrella to make it wider. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and film ratings it tells the reader there is lots of blood and violence; in farm and nature stories, an animal attack with horns. Phrases: blood and gore, gored by a bull, too much gore.

### Examples

- The film was too scary, full of blood and gore. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x1)
- The farmer was gored by an angry bull. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x2)
- The rhino can gore a lion with its horn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x3)
- Horror films are full of gore. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x4)
- The skirt has six gores, so it swirls when you spin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x5)
- That video game is rated 18 because of the gore. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x6)
- A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/#x7)

### Note

Gore (blood) is uncountable: too much gore. Past of the verb: gored. Do not confuse gory (full of blood) with glory. Al Gore is a name of an American politician.

## In Jewish tradition

The Torah's law of the goring ox says the owner is blameless if the ox had never gored before. If the ox was known to gore and was not guarded, the owner is also punished. The ox itself is stoned.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis drew from this law the rules of damages and of watching over your animals and property. They also taught that a person is responsible for harm that he could have foreseen.

### Examples

- Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. (Torah EXO.21.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gore/#x1)
- If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. (Torah EXO.21.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gore/#x2)
- And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. (Torah EXO.21.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gore/#x3)
- And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: With these shalt thou gore the Arameans, until they be consumed.' (Prophets 1KI.22.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gore/#x4)

### Note

Gore (blood) is uncountable: too much gore. Past of the verb: gored. Do not confuse gory (full of blood) with glory. Al Gore is a name of an American politician.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gore» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gore/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gore» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gore.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «gore» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gore/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gore» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/gore.html) on Mova free.