gore
noun [U] /ɡɔːr/
/ɡɔːr/ Definition
› blood that has come from an injury and become thick: It's a good film, but there's a lot of blood and gore in it (= pictures of people being badly injured).The circulatory system and blood
(Definition of gore noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -blooded suffix
- ABO noun
- blood donor noun
- blood vessel noun
- capillary noun
- circulation noun
- clot verb
- fibrin noun
- fibrinogen noun
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