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gore verb1 trans. LME.
[Origin unkn.]
Cut, pierce, or stab deeply with a sharp weapon, spur, etc. Now rare exc. as sense 2. LME.
J. Dickey I wondered if I should tell whatever doctor dressed it that I had gored myself on my own arrow.
Of an animal: pierce or stab with the horns or (rarely) tusks. E16.
W. S. Maugham His hired man had been gored by a bull and was in hospital. absol.: Adam Smith The dog that bites, the ox that gores.