|  gory 
 
 1. covered with blood (Freq. 1)
 - a bloodstained shirt
 - a gory dagger
 • Syn:
 bloodstained
 • Similar to:
 bloody
 2. accompanied by bloodshed
 - this bitter and sanguinary war
 • Syn:
 sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly
 • Similar to:
 bloody
 • Derivationally related forms:
 slaughter (for: slaughterous), sanguine (for: sanguineous)
 
 
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