Definitions for sores

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sores sore

Spelling: [sawr, sohr]

IPA: /sɔr, soʊr/

Sores is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in sores (eorss).

Definitions for sores

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 sores

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

Examples for sores

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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