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See also: Appendix:Variations of "gore"

English

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth).

gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
(countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 23:
  And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
- 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
(obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:
  As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.

thick blood

Bulgarian: съсирена кръв f (sǎsirena krǎv)
Carpathian Rusyn: спекла кров f (spekla krov)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瘀血 (zh) (yūxuè), 淤血 (zh) (yūxuè)
Czech: krev (cs) f, sedlá krev f, sražená krev f
Finnish: hurme (fi)
French: sang coagulé m
Galician: merexo m, cadullo (gl) m, coallo m
German: Blut (de) n, geronnenes Blut n
Greek:
Ancient: βρότος m (brótos), λύθρον n (lúthron), (Epic) ἔαρ n (éar)
Hungarian: alvadt vér
Icelandic: dreyri m
Italian: coagulo (it) m, grumo (it) m, sangue rappreso m
Japanese: 血糊 (ちのり, chinori)
Latin: cruor m
Old English: drēor m
Persian: دلمه (fa) (dalame)
Polish: (zakrzepła) krew f
Portuguese: sangue coagulado m
Russian: (запёкшаяся) кровь f ((zapjókšajasja) krovʹ), кровоподтёк (ru) m (krovopodtjók) (bruise, extravasation)
Spanish: sangre cuajada f, sangre de la herida, coágulo (es) m, sangre (es) f, crúor (es) m (poetic)
Tamil: குருதி (ta) (kuruti)
Turkish: pıhtılaşmış kan, kan (tr)
Ukrainian: загусла кров f (zahusla krov)
Yakut: бөлүөҕүрбүт хаан (bölüöğürbüt qaan)

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

(transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.
Synonym: horn

The bull gored the matador.
(transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab
(transitive or intransitive with at, obsolete, figurative) To needle or wound the feelings of.