soreadj詞源 1/sɔː/

• 1

  Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

  • Her feet were sore from walking so far.
• 2

  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; distressing.

  • The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
• 4

  informalFeeling 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.
• 5

  obsoleteCriminal; wrong; evil.

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

soreadv詞源 1/sɔː/

• 1

  archaicVery, 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 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.'
• 2

  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.
  • 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, […]

sorenoun詞源 1/sɔː/

• 1

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

  • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
• 2

  Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

  • I see plainly where his sore lies.

soreverb詞源 1/sɔː/

• 1

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

• 2

  To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.

sorenoun詞源 2/sɔː/

• 1

  A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

  • Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly
• 2

  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 but one more L.

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