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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sore \Sore\, adjective [Compar. {Sorer}; superl. {Sorest}.] [OE. sor, sar, AS. s[=a]r; akin to D. zeer, OS. & OHG. s?r, G. sehr very, Icel. s[=a]rr, Sw. s[*a]r, Goth. sair pain. Cf. {Sorry}.]
1. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
2. Fig.: 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. --Tillotson.
3. Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity. --Shak.
4. Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Sore throat} (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See {Cynanche}.
{Malignant sore throat}, {Ulcerated sore throat} or {Putrid sore throat}. See {Angina}, and under {Putrid}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sore \Sore\, adjective [F. saure, sore, sor; faucon sor a sore falcon. See {Sorrel}, noun] Reddish brown; sorrel. [R.]
{Sore falcon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Sore}, noun, 1.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sore \Sore\, noun (Zo["o]l.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under {Buck}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sore \Sore\, noun [OE. sor, sar, AS. s[=a]r. See {Sore}, adjective]
1. 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.
The dogs came and licked his sores. --Luke xvi. 21.
2. Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. --Chaucer.
I see plainly where his sore lies. --Sir W. Scott.
{Gold sore}. (Med.) See under {Gold}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sore \Sore\, adverb [AS. s[=a]re. See {Sore}, adjective]
1. In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
Thy hand presseth me sore. --Ps. xxxviii. 2.
2. Greatly; violently; deeply.
[Hannah] prayed unto the Lord and wept sore. --1 Sam. i. 10.
Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sore
adjective
1: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: {sensitive}, {tender}]
2: causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: {afflictive}, {painful}]
3: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: {huffy}, {mad}]
4: inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore throat" [syn: {raw}]
noun: an open skin infection
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
342 Moby Thesaurus words for "sore": abrasion, abscess, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, ache, aching, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, agonizing, ague, algesia, algetic, anemia, angered, angry, ankylosis, annoyed, anoxia, antagonistic, antipathetic, apnea, aposteme, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, awkward, backache, bed sore, belligerent, bitter, blain, bleak, bleb, bleeding, blemish, blennorhea, blister, blow, boil, break, browned-off, bruise, bubo, bulla, bunion, burdensome, burn, burning, cachexia, cachexy, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, caustic, chafe, chafed, chancre, chancroid, check, cheerless, chilblain, chill, chills, chip, choleric, clashing, cold sore, colic, colliding, comfortless, concussion, conflicting, constipation, convulsion, coughing, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, critical, cross, cut, cyanosis, damage, danger, delicate, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desperate, despiteful, diarrhea, difficulty, dire, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distress, distressful, distressing, dizziness, dolor, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, embarrassing, embittered, eschar, extreme, fainting, fatigue, felon, fester, festering, fever, fever blister, fibrillation, fierce, fiery, fistula, flash burn, flux, fracture, fray, frazzle, full of hate, furuncle, furunculus, gall, galled, gash, gathering, grief, grievous, growth, gumboil, harrowing, hateful, heavy, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, hostile, hurt, hurtful, hurting, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, incensed, incision, indigestion, indignant, infection, inflamed, inflammation, injury, insomnia, irate, ireful, irked, irritated, irritation, itching, jaundice, joyless, kibe, labored breathing, laceration, lamentable, lesion, livid, low blood pressure, lumbago, mad, malevolent, malicious, malignant, marasmus, mortal wound, mournful, moving, mutilation, nasal discharge, nasty blow, nausea, necrosis, onerous, oppressive, pain, painful, pang, papula, papule, paralysis, paronychia, parulis, passion, pathetic, peeved, petechia, piles, pimple, pissed, pissed-off, piteous, pitiable, pock, poignant, polyp, pressing, prickly, pruritus, puncture, pustule, quarrelsome, rancorous, rankled, rankling, rash, raw, rawness, red, regrettable, rent, repugnant, resentful, resenting, rheum, riled up, rip, rising, rueful, run, rupture, sad, saddening, scab, scald, sclerosis, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, seizure, sensitive, sensitiveness, serious, set against, severe, sharp, shock, skin eruption, slash, smarting, sneezing, soft chancre, sore spot, soreness, sorrowful, spasm, spiteful, splenetic, stab, stab wound, stewing, stigma, stinging, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty, suffering, suppuration, swelling, tabes, tachycardia, tear, tender, tender spot, tenderness, third-degree burn, thorny, throes, ticked off, ticklish, tingling, touching, touchy, trauma, trouble, troublesome, tubercle, tumor, ulcer, ulceration, uncomfortable, upset, upset stomach, urgent, venomous, vertigo, vexed, virulent, vitriolic, vomiting, wale, wasting, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, woebegone, woeful, worked up, wound, wounds immedicable, wrathful, wrathy, wrench, wretched, wroth, wrought-up
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