Sore
[sɔː] or [sɔr]
Definition
(n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.
(n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
(n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
(superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
(superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
(superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
(superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
(a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
(a.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
(a.) Greatly; violently; deeply.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ulcer, fester, abscess, imposthume, gathering, boil, pustule.
a. [1]. Painful (from inflammation), tender.[2]. Pained, hurt, grieved.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Painful, irritated, susceptible, excoriated, raw, scarified, ulcerous,grievous, afflictive, heavy, burdensome
ANT:Painless, sound, whole, healthful, healed, unbroken, unscarified, light,trivial, unburdensome, pleasant, untroublesome, grateful
SYN:Pustule, abscess, ulcer
Typist: Trevor
Definition
n. (Spens.) a hawk of the first year: (Shak.) a buck of the fourth year.
n. a wounded or diseased spot on an animal body: an ulcer or boil: (B.) grief affliction.—adj. wounded: tender: susceptible of pain: easily pained or grieved: bringing sorrow or regret: severe violent intense: wretched.—adv. painfully: grievously: severely thoroughly.—n. Sore′head (U.S.) a person discontented with the reward for his political services.—adj. Sore′headed.—adv. Sore′ly in a sore manner: grievously.—n. Sore′ness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing sores, denotes that illness will cause you loss and mental distress. To dress a sore, foretells that your personal wishes and desires will give place to the pleasure of others. To dream of an infant having a deep sore so that you can see the bone, denotes that distressing and annoying incidents will detract from your plans, and children will be threatened with contagion. To dream of sores on yourself, portends early decay of health and impaired mentality. Sickness and unsatisfactory business will follow this dream.
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And Oh my Eye, I'm so sore! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am very weak in my sore heart;--I love her yet; I love her more than ever. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You are sore about your poverty; you brood over that. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Finally my hands were so sore I could hardly close them over the oars. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- My stripes were sore and stiff, and made me cry afresh, when I moved; but they were nothing to the guilt I felt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- No wonder that he is sore. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The little children were in a pitiable condition--they all had sore eyes, and were otherwise afflicted in various ways. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is a very sore point with Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Such result, produced by long and continued exposure, has sometimes so deranged the skin tissues as to make sores that resulted in the entire loss of and renewal of the skin. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is bound to breed sores. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As an ointment it is especially applicable to the treatment of catarrh, malignant sores, abrasions, and other affections where a local remedy can be applied. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They were hideous and sordid, during his childhood they had been sores in his consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All through his life Mr. Casaubon had been trying not to admit even to himself the inward sores of self-doubt and jealousy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Warren