Damage vs Sour - What's the difference?
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Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
* Francis Bacon
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
Peevish or bad-tempered.
* Shakespeare
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
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The sensation of a sour taste.
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
(label) To make sour.
(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
(label) To become disenchanted.
(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
As nouns the difference between damage and sour
is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while sour is the sensation of a sour taste.As verbs the difference between damage and sour
is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while sour is to make sour.As an adjective sour is
having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
sour
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowrAdjective
(er)- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
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- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
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- sour adversity
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Noun
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- (Edmund Spenser)
Derived terms
* laundry sourVerb
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
- (Mortimer)