sore
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Adjective 4 meanings
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
“Her feet were sore from walking so far.”
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Dire; distressing.
“The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.”
Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
“Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.”
Adverb 1 meaning
Sorely.
Noun 4 meanings
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
“They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.”
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
A young buck in its fourth year.
Verb 2 meanings
To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
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”).
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SORE at a glance
SORE has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (S 1 + O 1 + R 1 + E 1) and 4 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,175 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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