Thesaurus results for GORED

gored

verb

past tense of gore

as in stabbed

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, may sound like fun, but the bulls have been known to gore runners who get too close

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Recent Examples of gored According to reports, the roughly 2,900-pound rhino burst from cover and fatally gored him before retreating back into the reserve. —

Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026 Ricardo Ortiz was handling the bulls in their enclosures at La Malagueta, a historic bullring in Málaga, when one of the animals gored him, according to Lances de Futuro, the company organizing the bullfight. —

Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026 By the end of the story, characters have been shot, pierced by arrows, gored by a deer, and nearly burned to death in a barn fire. —

Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026 In 2024, an 83-year-old woman was severely injured after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said. —

Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026 Florida man gored by bison at Yellowstone park A prominent wolf that lived among Yellowstone's most famous wolf pack is believed to have been illegally shot and killed just outside the park last month, according to wildlife experts. —

Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2026 This deer can’t even grab a bite at the local deer feeder without getting gored. —

Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025 Earlier this year, a New Jersey man who was visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison. —

Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025 As such, there is never any shortage of stories about enamored tourists being gored by bison in Yellowstone, and there have been at least two so far this year. —

Kassondra Cloos, Outside, 10 Sep. 2025

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Three people were stabbed on a Rhode Island beach Tuesday as hundreds of teenagers packed the area, forcing beachgoers to flee.

— Louis Casiano , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2026
Police say Brewer and a co-defendant robbed the victim after he was stabbed.

— Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 20 May 2026