engore

English

Etymology

en- +‎ gore

Verb

engore (third-person singular simple present engores, present participle engoring, simple past and past participle engored)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.
    • Edmund Spenser
      deadly engored of a great wild boar
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make bloody.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for engore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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