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Definition of Sour
Sour

Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.

Afflictive; painful.

Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.

To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.

To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

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Sour Quotations

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Every white will have its black, And every sweet its sour.
Thomas Percy

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
Joe Pantoliano

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis

Sour Translations

sour in Danish is sur
sour in Dutch is zuur
sour in French is acide, aigre
sour in German is sauer
sour in Italian is acido
sour in Latin is acidus
sour in Norwegian is sur
sour in Spanish is agriarse
sour in Swedish is sur


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