Definitions for sore

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sore sore

Spelling: [sawr, sohr]

IPA: /sɔr, soʊr/

Sore is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in sore (eors).

Definitions for sore

noun

1. a sore spot or place on the body.
2. a source or cause of grief, distress, irritation, etc.

adverb

1. Archaic. sorely.

adjective

1. physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part:
2. suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person:
3. suffering mental pain; grieved, distressed, or sorrowful:
4. causing great mental pain, distress, or sorrow:
5. causing very great suffering, misery, hardship, etc.:
6. Informal. annoyed; irritated; offended; angered:
7. causing annoyance or irritation:

Origin of sore

before 900; Middle English (adj., noun, and adv.); Old English sār; cognate with Dutch zeer, German sehr, Old Norse sārr

Examples for sore

Brother Mark of the Spicarium is sore smitten with a fever and could not come.

His mind refused to work out the problem; his side was so sore.

It's always been the same: Tim Stoddard has a sore arm and they believe him.

“He was probably a bear with a sore head after that,” she cedes.

Lately, Richard Dawkins seems to scan the world for sore spots, take a good poke, and revel in the ensuing outcry.

To consider these evils, to find their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.

The horses are all very tired, and many of them have sore backs.

After ONE practice session on a wooden horse my arm and legs were sore days later.

But for the real Mark Schultz, whom Tatum plays in the film Foxcatcher, it has become a sore point.

Evidently the Street and all that pertained was a sore subject.