gore

gore is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dirt; mud. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Dirt; mud.
2. noun. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
3. verb. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
4. verb. A small traingular piece of land.
5. verb. One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
6. transitive verb. To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
7. transitive verb. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
8. noun. the shedding of blood resulting in murder

   "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"

   Synonyms: bloodshed

9. noun. a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

   Synonyms: panel

10. noun. coagulated blood from a wound
11. noun. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
12. verb. wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
13. verb. cut into gores

    "gore a skirt"

Synonyms

bloodshed, panel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gore:

ergo, goer, ogre, rego

Common word forms

gored, gorer, gores, goring

Words from these letters

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