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adjective

Sore adj. (compar. sorer; superl. sorest)

Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

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."

Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... pultess of blew corants would cure her sore throat; and it did so. She was a pious woman, and affirmed ...

— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

... that you looked peaked when you had sore throat," she announced, "then there's somethin' the matter with your mind or your eyesight, one or t'other. You peaked? Why, your face was swelled up like a young one's balloon Fourth of July Day. And as for bein' pale! My soul! I give you my word I couldn't scurcely tell where your neck ...

— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln

... amongst our islanders the most deadly plague. It spread fearfully, and was accompanied by sore throat and diarrhea. In some villages, man, woman, and child were stricken, and none could give food or water to the rest. The misery, suffering, and terror were unexampled, the living being afraid sometimes even to bury the dead. Thirteen of my own Mission party died of this disease; and, so terror-stricken ...

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... has listened to all these arguments and has contracted clergyman's sore throat talking back, it is real relief to meet the people who say flatly and without reason: "You can't have it—no—I won't argue—but inasmuch as I can prevent it—you will never vote! So there!" The men who meet the question like this are so easy ...

— In Times Like These • Nellie L. McClung

... at Bristol between nine and ten the next morning; but I was so ill that I could go no further; I had been cold and shivering ever since my first passage across the Severn; and I had now a violent sore throat and a fever with it. All I could do was to see the witnesses off for London, and to assign them to the care of an attorney, who should conduct them to the trial. For this purpose I gave them a letter ...

— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson

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