Gory \Gor"y\, a. [From Gore.]
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1. Covered with gore or clotted blood.
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Thou canst not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me. --Shak.
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2. Bloody; murderous. "Gory emulation." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gory
adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory dagger"
[syn: bloodstained]
2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
[syn: sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
[also: goriest, gorier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "gory":
blood-colored, blood-spattered, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody,
bloody-minded, bloody-red, cruel, cutthroat, ensanguined, grisly,
gruesome, homicidal, horrific, murderous, red-handed, sanguinary,
sanguine, sanguineous, self-destructive, slaughterous, suicidal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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