Antonyms for
gore
Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
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All Definitions for Gore

Below are all the dictionary definitions of gore:

1Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
3To pierce with a horn or tusk.
4A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
5A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
6A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
7The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
8To provide with a gore.
9To cut into a triangular form.
10A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
11A projecting point.
12A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
13An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
14A gout or mass of such blood.
15To cover or smear with blood.
16To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
17To needle or wound the feelings of.
18Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
19A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
20A surname.
21A male given name transferred from the surname.
22A place name:
23A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.
24A territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town
25In full, Gore District.
26A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.
27Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
28A rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.
29A township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.
30A number of places in the United States:
31An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
32A township in Huron County, Michigan.
33An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
34An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
35A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.
36An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.

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