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Sore vs Swell - What's the difference?

sore | swell |

In informal terms the difference between sore and swell

is that sore is feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered while swell is a person of high social standing; an important person.

As adjectives the difference between sore and swell

is that sore is causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive while swell is excellent.

As nouns the difference between sore and swell

is that sore is an injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin while swell is the act of swelling.

As verbs the difference between sore and swell

is that sore is mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal while swell is to become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

As an adverb sore

is very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

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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    swell

    English

    Verb

  • To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
  • To cause to become bigger.
    • Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
  • * Atterbury
    • It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.}}
  • * 2013 June 18, (Simon Romero), " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
  • To grow gradually in force or loudness.
    • The organ music swelled .
  • To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
    • to be swelled with pride or haughtiness
  • To be raised to arrogance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.
  • To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  • * Dryden
    • Your equal mind yet swells not into state.
  • To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
    • swelling''' words; a '''swelling style
  • To protuberate; to bulge out.
    • A cask swells in the middle.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of swelling.
  • Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  • * Landor:
    • the swell and subsidence of his periods
  • A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  • * 1883 , , Treasure Island , ch. 24:
    • There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.
  • (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  • (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  • A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  • * 1909 , , The Last of the Chiefs , ch. 2:
    • Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.
  • (informal) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
  • * , "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh :
    • It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?
  • * 1887 , , The Cash Boy , ch. 9:
    • He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell .
  • (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  • * 1864 , , The Small House at Allington , ch. 2:
    • "I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." . . .
    "I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell'." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a ' swell .
  • * 1906 , , The Trespasser , ch. 8:
    • You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell —you and the gods!

    Synonyms

    * (person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner) dandy, dude, toff * (person of high social standing) toff

    Derived terms

    * ground swell, groundswell * upswell * wind swell

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Excellent.
  • * 2012 , (Ariel Levy), "The Space In Between", The New Yorker , 10 Sep 2012:
    • Orgasms are swell , but they are not the remedy to every injustice.

    Anagrams

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