sore
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
Inflected forms:
form: sorer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sorest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
pos: adj
examples: Her feet were sore from walking so far.
gloss: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
pos: adj
examples: Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
gloss: Dire; distressing.
pos: adj
examples: The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
gloss: Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
“God damn it.” He was sore as hell. He was really furious.
TfN is clearly very sore about last year's axing of part of HS2.
gloss: Criminal; wrong; evil.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […]and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
gloss: Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
pos: adv
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: 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 this thing.
But on that day when Lancelot fled the lists, / His party, knights of utmost North and West, / Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles, / Came round their great Pendragon, saying to him / 'Lo, Sire, our knight thro' whom we won the day / Hath gone sore wounded, and hath left his prize / Untaken, crying that his prize is death.'
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.
gloss: Sorely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, […]
[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.
gloss: An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
pos: noun
examples: They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
gloss: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: I see plainly where his sore lies.
gloss: To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: blister
lesion
ulcer
Derived words: like a bear with a sore head
mad as a bear with a sore head
sight for sore eyes
sorance
sore boob means more boob
sore eyes
sorehead
soreheaded
sore loser
sorely
soreness
sore point
sore throat
sore thumb
sore-thumbish
sore winner
sorrel
stand out like a sore thumb
stick out like a sore thumb
unsore
bedsore
buttsore
canker sore
cold sore
desert sore
earsore
eyesore
footsore
fuck sore
heartsore
humpsore
mouthsore
oriental sore
pressure sore
running sore
saddlesore
saddle sore
veld sore
veldt sore
weak sore
soring
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