gore vs sink into

gore

verb
  • To cut in a triangular form. 

  • To provide with a gore. 

  • To pierce with the horn. 

noun
  • Dirt; mud; filth. 

  • A projecting point. 

  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ 

  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet. 

  • One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point. 

  • Murder, bloodshed, violence. 

  • A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error. 

  • The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe 

  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe. 

  • Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. 

sink into

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