Home › Words › E › engoreengore/ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/engore means to gore, pierce, or lacerate.engore is pronounced /ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/.EtymologyFrom en- + gore.verbTo gore, pierce, or lacerate.e.g.“deadly engored of a great wild Bore” — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38:To make bloody or gory.e.g.“Cut out this arrow; and the blood, that is engored and dry.” — [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, PrDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.gored 72% match — Having a gore or gores. vs engore →gorer 71% match — Someone or something that gores (typically an animal that gores other creatures). vs engore →begore 67% match — To make gory. vs engore →goring 66% match — The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting vs engore →gride 61% match — To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab. vs engore →overgorge 59% match — To gorge to excess. vs engore →engorge 58% match — To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. vs engore →enthrill 57% match — To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab. vs engore →