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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gory \Gor"y\, adjective [From {Gore}.]
1. Covered with gore or clotted blood.
Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. --Shak.
2. Bloody; murderous. ''Gory emulation.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gory
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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