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Tore vs Sore - What's the difference?

tore | sore |

As adjectives the difference between tore and sore

is that tore is hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious while sore is causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

As verbs the difference between tore and sore

is that tore is simple past of tear (rip, rend, speed) while sore is mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.

As nouns the difference between tore and sore

is that tore is alternative form of lang=en while sore is an injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

As an adverb sore is

very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

tore

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Full; rich.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tear) (rip, rend, speed).
    • Usage notes
    * The past tense of the other verb (tear), meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is (teared).

    Etymology 3

    See torus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture)
  • (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
  • The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

    • Etymology 4

    Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
    • (Mortimer)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    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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