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Sore   /sɔr/   Listen
adjective
Sore  adj.  Reddish brown; sorrel. (R.)
Sore falcon. (Zool.) See Sore, n., 1.


Sore  adj.  (compar. sorer; superl. sorest)  
1.
Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
2.
Fig.: 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.
Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
4.
Criminal; wrong; evil. (Obs.)
Sore throat (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche.
Malignant sore throat, Ulcerated sore throat or Putrid sore throat. See Angina, and under Putrid.


noun
Sore  n.  (Zool.)
1.
A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
2.
(Zool.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.


Sore  n.  
1.
A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil. "The dogs came and licked his sores."
2.
Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. "I see plainly where his sore lies."
Gold sore. (Med.) See under Gold, n.


adverb
Sore  adv.  
1.
In a sore manner; with pain; grievously. "Thy hand presseth me sore."
2.
Greatly; violently; deeply. "(Hannah) prayed unto the Lord and wept sore." "Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard."





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"Sore" Quotes from Famous Books



... previous to commencing housekeeping, had never, except in a playful manner, alluded to the ill-dressed food which daily made its appearance on the table. To-day, however, when they returned from church and sat down to dinner, probably owing to being a little sore on the subject of the soiled linen, Emily saw him knit his brows in rather a portentous manner, while, in no very amiable tone of ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... his sore trouble a little flash of joy shot through Tip's heart. He was different, then. Kitty had noticed it; she knew he was trying to be different. There must be a little bit ...
— Tip Lewis and His Lamp • Pansy (aka Isabella Alden)
... sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner: in sign whereof they hang the dead sea-bird ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... on, it became a sore trial to the Parisians to be cut off from all outside news. Not a letter nor a newspaper crossed the lines. Even the agents of Foreign Governments, and Mr. Washburne, the only foreign ambassador in Paris, were prohibited from hearing from their Governments, unless all communications ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer
... at a late hour with the result that the clause was defeated by 271 votes to 135, being a majority against it of 136, or two to one. But though such a vote would have been a sore discouragement if it had represented the real opinion of the House, on the present occasion it meant little if anything. The government had sent out a "five-line" whip for its supporters, and so effective had this whip been, combined with Mr. Gladstone's ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various


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