Meaning of sore in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

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

  Example: They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

• Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

verb

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

adjective

• Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

  Example: Her feet were sore from walking so far.

• Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

• Dire; distressing.

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

• Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

  Example: Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.

• Criminal; wrong; evil.

adverb

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

• Sorely.

noun

• A group of ducks on land.

noun

• A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

• A young buck in its fourth year.