1. involving or showing much blood, especially from violence or injury
2. unpleasantly vivid in describing violence or bloodshed

Examples

• The movie was too gory for young children to watch.
• She couldn’t look at the gory scene of the accident.
• The horror novel contained several gory descriptions of the murders.
• The documentary showed gory footage from the battlefield.
• He gave us all the gory details about his surgery.
• The crime scene was particularly gory and disturbing.
• Many viewers found the gory special effects realistic but unsettling.