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Wounded in beastly fashion? Leave, looking embarrassed (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gored

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'wounded in beastly fashion?' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs occasionally mean the same thing.

'leave looking embarrassed' is the wordplay.
'leave' becomes 'go' (to go is to depart or leave).
'looking embarrassed' becomes 'red' (someone may go red when embarrassed).
'go'+'red'='GORED'

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(Other definitions for gored that I've seen before include "Pierced by bull's horns" , "Wounded by a bull" , "like an unfortunate matador?" , "Pierced - blush (can be 5 or 2,3)" , "Stabbed with a horn/tusk" .)

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