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sore | gore |

As a noun sore

is .

As a proper noun gore is

.

sore

English

(wikipedia sore)

Adjective

(er)
  • Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
    • Her feet were sore from walking so far.
  • Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • * Tillotson
    • Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
  • Dire; distressing.
    • The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
  • (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
    • Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
  • (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * sight for sore eyes * sorely * soreness * sore point

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (lb) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • Sorely.
  • *1919 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Jungle Tales of Tarzan
  • *:[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
    • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore .
  • Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • I see plainly where his sore lies.
  • A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
  • A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  • A young buck in its fourth year.

    • Verb

  • mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.

    • Derived terms

    * soring

    See also

    * blister * lesion * ulcer

    Anagrams

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    gore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dirt, filth.
    • (Bishop Fisher)
  • (senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  • Murder, bloodshed, violence.
    • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    Probably from .

    Verb

    (gor)
  • (of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
    • The bull gored the matador.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
    • (Cowell)
  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores : not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  • A projecting point.
  • (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

    • Verb

    (gor)
  • To cut in a triangular form.
  • To provide with a gore.
    • to gore an apron

    Anagrams

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