sore
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Dire; distressing.
(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
Sorely.
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
(intransitive) To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
A young buck in its fourth year.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.”
— 1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon IV. The Advantages of Religion to Particular Persons. Psalm XIX. 11.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:
““God damn it.” He was sore as hell. He was really furious.”
— 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 53:
“TfN is clearly very sore about last year's axing of part of HS2.”
— 2024 May 1, “Network News: Do TfN and the DfT actually respect each other?”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 13: