Definition of "gory" []

• Covered or stained with gore; bloody. (adjective)
• Full of or characterized by bloodshed and violence. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The answer my book will flesh out in gory detail: signaling."
• "In races across the country, Democrats will give voters the opportunity to examine Republicans in gory detail -- up close and personal -- before Election Day."
• "A chimpanzee population split into two, and, over time, one group wiped out the other, in gory episodes of territorial attack and cannibalism."