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sore

adj
/sɔː/UK/soɹ/US/so(ː)ɹ/

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”).

  1. inherited from *seh₂iro-✻
  2. inherited from *sairaz✻
  3. inherited from *sair✻
  4. inherited from sār
  5. inherited from sor

Definitions

  1. Causing pain or discomfort

    Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

    • Her feet were sore from walking so far.

  2. Sensitive

    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.

  3. Dire

    Dire; distressing.

    • The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Feeling animosity towards someone

      Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

      • 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.

    2. Criminal

      Criminal; wrong; evil.

      • […]and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.

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

      • 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.

    4. Sorely.

      • 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.

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

      • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

    6. Grief

      Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

      • I see plainly where his sore lies.

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

    8. To grow sores

      To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.

    9. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

      • Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly

    10. A young buck in its fourth year.

    11. Acronym of 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.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA