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Loured vs Soured - What's the difference?

loured | soured |

As verbs the difference between loured and soured

is that loured is (lour) while soured is (sour).

As an adjective soured is

that has become, or has been made sour.

loured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lour)
  • Anagrams

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    lour

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • * 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
  • And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
  • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
  • * '>citation
  • * '>citation
  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
  • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
  • * {{quote-web, date=2007-03-29 , quotee=Judith , title=Gordon Brown Meets the Ten Year Olds , site=Dale's Diary
  • citation , passage= … the appalling burden of public service inflation-proof pensions that will lour over our children and grandchildren.}}
  • To frown; to look sullen.
  • * (rfdate) John Dryden:
  • But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.

    soured

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That has become, or has been made sour.
  • Derived terms

    * soured cream

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sour)
  • Anagrams

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