SORE
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sore¹
- /sɔː/ UK
- /soɹ/ US
- /so(ː)ɹ/
- /soə/
Sounds like soar, saw (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
adjective sorer · sorest
- Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- 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.
- Dire; distressing. The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
- Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered. Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
- Criminal; wrong; evil. […]and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
adverb
- Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad). And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done th
- Sorely. But he was paying the penalty laid on His father's crime; for one time, cutting trees Alone among the hills, he spurned the prayer Of the Hamadryas Nymph, who, weeping sore, With earnest words besought him not to cut The trunk of an oak tree, which, with herself Coeval, had endured for many a year.
noun sores
- An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
- Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. I see plainly where his sore lies.
verb sores · soring · sored
- To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
- To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
sore²
- /sɔː/ UK
- /soɹ/ US
- /so(ː)ɹ/
- /soə/
Sounds like soar, saw (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English sor (“sorrel”), from Old French sor (“sorrel; reddish”). Compare French saur (“(archaic) reddish-brown; describing a young bird of prey”).
noun sores
- A young hawk or falcon in its first year. Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly
- A young buck in its fourth year. Some say a Sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting. The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting. If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: Of one sore I an hundred make by adding
SORE³
noun SOREs
- Acronym of small off-road engine.small off-road engine Rather than banning these engines overnight, the state is rolling out the change gradually. The new rules tighten emissions standards over time, leading up to a ban on the sale of new gas-powered SOREs by 2028.
