sore
painful to the touch; tender:
a sore arm; open wound
Not to be confused with:soar – rise, fly, or glide without effort:
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sore
(sôr)adj. sor·er,
sor·est 1. Painful to the touch; tender.
2. Feeling physical pain; hurting: sore all over.
3. Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous: in sore need.
4. Causing embarrassment or irritation: a sore subject.
5. Full of distress; sorrowful.
6. Informal Angry; offended.
n.1. An open skin lesion, wound, or ulcer.
2. A source of pain, distress, or irritation.
tr.v. sored,
sor·ing,
sores To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
[Middle English, from Old English sār.]
sore′ness n.
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sore
(sɔː) adj1. (Pathology) (esp of a wound, injury, etc) painfully sensitive; tender
2. causing annoyance: a sore point.
3. resentful; irked: he was sore that nobody believed him.
4. urgent; pressing: in sore need.
5. (postpositive) grieved; distressed
6. causing grief or sorrow
n7. (Pathology) a painful or sensitive wound, injury, etc
8. any cause of distress or vexation
advarchaic direly; sorely (now only in such phrases as sore pressed, sore afraid)
[Old English sār; related to Old Norse sārr, Old High German sēr, Gothic sair sore, Latin saevus angry]
ˈsoreness n
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sore
(sɔr, soʊr)
adj. sor•er, sor•est,
n., adv. adj. 1. physically painful or sensitive, as a wound or diseased part: a sore arm.
2. suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc.
3. suffering mental pain; grieved or distressed: to be sore at heart.
4. causing great mental pain, distress, or sorrow: a sore loss.
5. causing very great misery, hardship, and the like: in sore need.
6. annoyed; irritated; angered.
7. causing annoyance or irritation: a sore subject.
n. 8. a sore spot or place on the body.
9. a source of grief, distress, etc.
adv. 10. Archaic. sorely.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English sār (adj.), c. Old Frisian sār, Old Saxon, Old High German sēr, Old Norse sār; akin to Old English, Old Norse sār pain, Gothic sair]
sore′ness, n.
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sore
- angry - Describing a wound or sore that is red and inflamed.
- merry-gall - A sore produced by chafing.
- sore - As a noun, it first meant generally "physical pain and suffering."
- chafe, chaff - To chafe means to rub until sore or worn; to chaff means to tease good-naturedly.
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Sord, Sore
a flight or flock of mallard in the air, 1470. See also safe.Examples: sord of mallard, 1470; of ducks.
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