SORE, n. 1. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be pained with the slightest pressure.2. An ulcer; a boil.3. In Scriptures, grief; affliction. 2 Chron. 6.SORE, a. 1. Tender and susceptible of pain from pressure; as, a boil, ulcer or abscess is very sore; a wounded place is sore; inflammation renders a part sore.2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved or vexed; very susceptible of irritation from any thing that crosses the inclination. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.3. Affected with inflammation; as sore eyes.4. Violent with pain; severe; afflictive; distressing; as a sore disease; sore evil or calamity; a sore night.5. Severe; violent; as a sore conflict.6. Criminal; evil.SORE, adv. 1. With painful violence; intensely; severely; grievously. They hand presseth me sore.2. Greatly; violently; deeply. He was sorely afflicted at the loss of his son. Sore sigh'd the knight, who this long sermon heard.SORE, v.t. To wound; to make sore. SORE, n. A hawk of the first year. |
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