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sore

Pronunciation: /sɔː/

The English word “sore” has 13 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
  2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  3. Dire; distressing.
  4. Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
  5. Criminal; wrong; evil.

adverb

  1. Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  2. Sorely.

noun

  1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
  2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  3. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  4. A young buck in its fourth year.

verb

  1. To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
  2. To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.

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 *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”),…

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