Souring
['saʊr]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sour
(n.) Any sour apple.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- A sour wine, moreover, or a souring, for its influence on the mood of those who drank it was to make them gloomy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Even milk is not exempt, but is doctored to prevent souring, the preservative most generally used by milk dealers being formaldehyde. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The spoiling of meats and soups, and the souring of milk and preserves, are due to germs which, like those producing disease, can be destroyed by heat and by chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Checker: Lorenzo