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Wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
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goring
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gore \Gore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Goring .] [OE. gar spear, AS. g?r. See 2d Gore .] To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. --Coleridge. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Göring , also spelled Goering , is a German surname (not to be confused with the English surname Goring ). Notable people with this surname include the following: Hermann Göring (1893–1946), a leading member of the Nazi Party Albert Göring (1895–1966), ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is gored. vb. (present participle of gore English)
Usage examples of goring.
At the age of three months, Goring was parted from his parents, who went to Haiti for three years, where his father was the German consul general.
Though he was judged unfit to serve in the infantry because of his physical incapacity, Goring joined the Luftwaffe.
During the trial of the men charged with burning the Reichstag building, Goring made wild accusations.
It was highly probable that Hitler would have no child, and he had named Goring as his successor.
Hitler blamed Goring for both, though it was Hitler’s decision to bomb the English cities instead of first wiping out the Royal Air Force bases that was responsible for the Germans’ plight.
But, Goring, loving Sweden, had threatened to resign if Sweden was attacked.
When Goring was several thousand miles from Parolando, he began hearing rumors of the great falling star, the meteorite, that had struck down-River.
The Hermann Goring before you is not the man of the same name who lived on Earth.
After a year there, Goring had adopted the Esperanto name of Fenikso (Phoenix).
It’s the old Hermann Goring, still alive down there, though I thought I had put him away forever.
When Goring was introduced to him as Brother Fenikso, La Viro’s emissary and a subbishop, Burton bowed.
On entering, Goring saw the American, Peter Jairus Frigate, and the Englishwoman, Alice Hargreaves, playing billiards.
Well, Goring thought, it has been nearly sixty years since we last saw each other.
The true reason probably was that Goring, if revealed, would then reveal Burton.
As one who’d been the second-in-command of the German empire and thus had met many of the world’s greats, Goring was not easily awed or bamboozled.