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Souring   /sˈaʊərɪŋ/   Listen
Souring

noun
1.
The process of becoming sour.


Sour

verb
(past & past part. soured; pres. part. souring)
1.
Go sour or spoil.  Synonyms: ferment, turn, work.  "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
2.
Make sour or more sour.  Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate.



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"Souring" Quotes from Famous Books



... barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over measures of wine. Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times, but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time. A sour wine, moreover, or a souring, for its influence on the mood of those who drank it was to make them gloomy. No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark, lay hidden ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens
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... this great blessing, with all the deliverance from self-seeking and pride which it brings, has made it possible to go on imposing more and more of regulation and discipline on all sorts of men and women without either souring their spirit or transforming The Army's system into mere machinery. The Army will go on to carry out its Founder's purpose better and better the more it learns how to sit constantly at the feet of ...
— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton
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... of 1883 a Mr. J.B. Thompson, of New Cross, London, patented a new process of bleaching, the main feature of which consisted in the use of carbonic acid gas in a closed vessel to decompose the chloride of lime. The "chemicking" and "souring" operations he performed at one and the same time. The reactions which took place in his bleaching keir were stated by the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 • Various
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... If I don't tell you, you'll be begging for something to eat amongst the neighbors. Your dinner is already cooked and the coffee made. All you'll have to do is to set it on the coals and warm it up. The sugar is right at the coffee-pot, and the cream is in the spring-house to keep it from souring. ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
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... would be quiet, he would take the opportunity of going off to gather a few sticks for firewood, and then when he returned the others would be sweeping up the blood. This ill-luck had given a gentle melancholy to his countenance, but instead of souring his nature had sweetened it, so that he was quite the humblest of the boys. Poor kind Tootles, there is danger in the air for you to-night. Take care lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
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