1 (informal) involving a lot of blood or violence; showing or describing blood and violence:
a gory accident / operation * the gory task of the pathologist * a gory movie / book * (humorous) He insisted on telling us all the gory details about their divorce (= the unpleasant facts).
2 (literary) covered with blood:
a gory figure
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is gory a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gory is tagged as adjective.
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