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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



... the neck of a bottle, but wrong to make free slily with that which he was merely entrusted to serve out. However, it rushed so fast into his mouth, and was so hot, that he was afraid of being strangled. It happened that he had bitten his cheek that morning, and the liquor bathing the sore place made it smart so that he put down the bottle on the floor, when, in stamping about, it rolled downstairs and made a fine clatter. His father ran out on hearing the noise, but was stopped in the way ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas

... that so temperate and candid a speech should have raised a storm of anger when read in Charleston. But the sore lace was too tender for even the friendliest such, and of all those who had greeted him here so cordially the winter before, but two or three maintained and strengthened their relations with him after this summer. It was one of many trials ...
— Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter • Orville Dewey

... remarkable disease or accident, certain old men known by the name of bilbo (by which cognomen the medical officers of the settlement have also been distinguished) were applied to for advice. I know of no popular remedies, however, with the exception of tight ligatures near a wound, bruise or sore, the object of which is to prevent the malady from passing into the body. In like manner for a headache, a fillet is bound tightly across the forehead. These people, like most other savages, recover in a most surprising manner from wounds and other ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray

... attitudes of war, and flanked by an embattled tower, guarded the entrance. From this gate to the entrance of the palace arose in long ascent a sloping dais or half pace, along which were grouped "images of sore and terrible countenances," in armor of argentine or bright metal. At the entrance, under an embowed landing-place, facing the great doors, stood "antique" (classical) figures girt with olive branches. The passages, the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various

... at Gladwyn every day,—ay, twice a day; and people said—But what an old gossip I am! Well, about poor Eric, there can be no harm in your knowing what all the world knows, even Marvel and Tracy; it is a very sore subject with poor Mr. Hamilton, and no one dares to mention Eric's name to him; but, as Etta says, Gladys can never hold her tongue about him when they two are alone together.' I certainly held mine at that moment. I began to wonder what Miss ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey


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