As verbs the difference between sour and fester
is that
sour is (
label) to make sour while
fester is to become septic; to become rotten.
As an adjective sour
is having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
As a noun sour
is the sensation of a sour taste.
sour English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowr
Adjective
( er)
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
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* Francis Bacon
- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- (rfex)
Tasting or smelling rancid.
- (rfex)
Peevish or bad-tempered.
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* Shakespeare
- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
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(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
- (rfex)
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
- sour adversity
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Noun
The sensation of a sour taste.
- (rfex)
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- (rfex)
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- (Edmund Spenser)
Derived terms
* laundry sour
Verb
(label) To make sour.
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(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
(label) To become disenchanted.
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(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (Mortimer)
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
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fester English
Verb
( en verb)
To become septic; to become rotten.
* Milton
- Wounds immedicable / Rankle, and fester , and gangrene.
To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
- Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester .
* Macaulay
- Hatred festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
To cause to fester or rankle.
* Marston
- For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, / And fester'd rankling malice in my breast.
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