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Sore
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- 1 Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
"Her feet were sore from walking so far."
- 2 Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
"Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy."
- 3 Dire; distressing.
"The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood."
- 4 Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered. informal
"Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers."
- 5 Criminal; wrong; evil. obsolete
"[…]and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body."
- 1 roused to anger wordnet
- 2 hurting wordnet
- 3 causing misery or pain or distress wordnet
- 1 Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad). archaic, not-comparable
"And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done this thing."
- 2 Sorely. not-comparable
"And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, […]"
- 1 An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
"They put ointment and a bandage on the sore."
- 2 A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
"Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly"
- 3 Acronym of small off-road engine. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
"Rather than banning these engines overnight, the state is rolling out the change gradually. The new rules tighten emissions standards over time, leading up to a ban on the sale of new gas-powered SOREs by 2028."
- 4 an open skin infection wordnet
- 5 Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
"I see plainly where his sore lies."
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- 6 A young buck in its fourth year.
"Some say a Sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting. The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting. If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L."
- 1 To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait. transitive
- 2 To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
From Middle English sor (“sorrel”), from Old French sor (“sorrel; reddish”). Compare French saur (“(archaic) reddish-brown; describing a young bird of prey”).
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