| 单词 | gory |
| 释义 | gory (once / 5015 pages) adj Use the word gory to describe something that features a lot of bloodshed and violence, like a horror movie in which victims are axed to death by a madman. Some people love gory movies like that, and others refuse to watch them. Something that is gory often involves both violence and bloodshed, but it can also describe something that is merely blood, like the gory photographs depicting a root canal procedure in a dental assistant textbook. Gory can describe unpleasant, embarrassing things, like saying of your brother’s bad behavior over the holidays, “I’ll spare you the gory details about his meltdown at the family Christmas party.” WORD FAMILYgory: gorier, goriest, gorily USAGE EXAMPLESThe feature-length videos in the show, including meditations on Patty Hearst, the Manson family and the Weather Underground, are variously gory, tedious, compelling and amateurish. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) As in the games, the main issue here is violence — although the movie is far less brutally gory than the games. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) Gruesome without being gory, “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” achieves real scares with a minimum of special effects. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1adj covered with blood a gory dagger Syn bloodstained bloody having or covered with or accompanied by blood 2adj accompanied by bloodshed Syn butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous bloody having or covered with or accompanied by blood |
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