Sore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Painful to the touch; tender.
  • adj. Feeling physical pain; hurting: sore all over.
  • adj. Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous: in sore need.
  • adj. Causing embarrassment or irritation: a sore subject.
  • adj. Full of distress; sorrowful.
  • adj. Informal Angry; offended.
  • n. An open skin lesion, wound, or ulcer.
  • n. A source of pain, distress, or irritation.
  • v. To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
  • ad. Archaic Sorely.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
  • adj. Dire; distressing.
  • adj. Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
  • ad. Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  • ad. Sorely.
  • n. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Reddish brown; sorrel.
  • n. A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
  • n. A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
  • adj. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts.
  • adj. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • adj. Severe; afflictive; distressing.
  • adj. Criminal; wrong; evil.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • ad. In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
  • ad. Greatly; violently; deeply.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Painful, as being the seat of a wound or of disease; aching; specifically, painfully sensitive to the touch: said of the part affected, or, by extension, of the entire member or person concerned.
  • Inflicting physical suffering; giving bodily pain.
  • Suffering mental pain; distressed; painfully sensitive; touchy.
  • Bringing sorrow, misery, or regret; distressing; grievous; oppressive.
  • Associated with painful ideas or feelings; accompanied by grief, anger, mortification, regret, discomfort, or the like; serving as an occasion of bitterness: as, a sore subject.
  • Severe; violent; fierce.
  • Exceeding; extreme; intense.
  • Wretched: vile; worthless; base.
  • n. A state of suffering or pain; grief; sorrow; misery.
  • n. A wounded or diseased spot on an animal body; a painful or painfully tender place, with or without solution of continuity, on or near the surface of the body.
  • n. A source of grief, distress, annoyance, or bitterness; a misfortune; a trouble.
  • With physical suffering; so as to cause bodily pain; painfully.
  • In a manner indicating or causing mental pain; deplorably; grievously; bitterly.
  • Violently; fiercely; severely.
  • Exceedingly; thoroughly; intensely.
  • Firmly; tightly; fast.
  • To make sore; wound.
  • Reddish-brown; sorrel. See sorrel, and compare sorage, sore-eagle, sore-falcon, sore-hawk.
  • n. A hawk of the first year.
  • n. A buck of the fourth year. See sorrel, 3.
  • An obsolete spelling of soar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. roused to anger
  • adj. hurting
  • n. an open skin infection
  • adj. causing misery or pain or distress
  • Equivalent
    angry    painful    unpleasant   
    Verb Form
    sored    sorely    soreness    sores    soring   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    buck   
    Form
    soreness    sorely    sore point   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sorrel    inflamed    painful    tender    severe    afflictive    distressing    criminal    wrong    evil   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Gore    Igor   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    painful    weary    sick    nervous    weak    grievous    hot    severe