Sore
WordNet
adjective
(1) Roused to anger
"Stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain
"She gets mad when you wake her up so early"
"Mad at his friend"
"Sore over a remark"
(2) Hurting
"The tender spot on his jaw"
(3) Causing misery or pain or distress
"It was a sore trial to him"
"The painful process of growing up"
noun
(4) An open skin infection
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Etymology
sār. Influenced in meaning by Old Norse (Danish ), akin to German and Gothic .
Adjective
- Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- Feeling animosity towards; annoyed or angered.
- Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
- Dire; distressing.
- The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
Adverb
- Sorely.
- 1919: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=119320172&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+Jungle+Tales+of+Tarzan,+1919&query=+sore+pressed&id=BurJung
- ...[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.
- 1919: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=119320172&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+Jungle+Tales+of+Tarzan,+1919&query=+sore+pressed&id=BurJung
Noun
- An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
- They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.