sore

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//sɔː//(Received Pronunciation)

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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections

Key Verb Forms & Inflections
Third-person singular (he/she/it):sores
Present Participle (-ing):soring
Past Participle:sored
Simple Past:sored

Definitions & Usage

adjective
#1

Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

Example: Her feet were sore from walking so far.
adjective
#2

Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

Translations:[DE]empfindlich
adjective
#3

Dire; distressing.

Example: The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
adjective
#4

(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

Example: Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
adjective
#5

(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.

adverb
#6

(archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

adverb
#7

Sorely.

noun
#8

An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

Example: They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
Translations:[DE]Wunde
noun
#9

Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

verb
#10

(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

verb
#11

(intransitive) To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.

noun
#12

A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

noun
#13

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:

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