gory

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered or stained with blood

   The injured man looked pale and gory after the accident.

2. 2
   adj

   involving or showing graphic bloodshed and violence

   She covered her eyes during the film's gory final scene.

3. 3
   adj

   unpleasantly explicit or detailed, especially in the phrase gory details

   He spared us the gory details of the failed surgery.

Formed from gore + -y. Gore in the sense 'clotted blood' is related to Old English gor, 'dirt or dung,' and Middle English words for filth or mud. Gory first described something smeared with blood; the phrase gory details later broadened it to explicit and unpleasant particulars of any kind.

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