gored

VERB

pierce

Synonyms

STRONG

gouge impale lance perforate puncture spear stab stick wound

Example Sentences

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The astonish'd Inca marks, with wild surprise, Dead chills on earth, no cloud in all the skies, His host o'ershaded in the field of blood, Gored by his foes, deserted by his God.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Alas, my lord," he weeping said, "Gored by my bull, your ox is dead.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Park, Marmaduke

Gored on the Norman gonfalon The Golden Dragon died: We shall not wake with ballad strings The good time of the smaller things, We shall not see the holy kings Ride down by Severn side.

From The Ballad of the White Horse by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Erelong, Thick darkness descended the mountains among, And a vivid, vindictive, and serpentine flash Gored the darkness, and shore it across with a gash.

From Lucile by Meredith, Owen