Definition of Sore

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Definition of Sore

Sore

Reddish brown; sorrel.

A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

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

Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

Criminal; wrong; evil.

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.

Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

Greatly; violently; deeply.

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Sore Quotations

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Henry Ward Beecher

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Elton John

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Terence

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Warren Cuccurullo

Sore Translations

sore in Dutch is zweer
sore in German is wund, schlimm
sore in Latin is vomica
sore in Spanish is dolorido

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