sore

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Middle English sor, from Old English sār (noun) 'ache, wound' and sār (adj.) 'painful, grievous', from Proto-Germanic *sairan (noun) (compare Dutch zeer 'sore, ache', Danish sår 'wound'), and *sairaz (adj.) 'sore' (compare German sehr 'very'), from pre-Germanic *sh₂ei-ro-, enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ei- 'to be fierce, afflict' (compare Hittite sāwar 'anger', Welsh hoed 'pain', Ancient Greek aimōdía 'toothache').

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sore (comparative sorer, superlative sorest)

  1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
    Her feet were sore from walking so far.
  2. Feeling animosity towards; annoyed or angered.
    Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
  3. Dire; distressing.
    The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.

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sore (comparative more sore, superlative most sore)

  1. Very, excessively, extremely.
    They were sore afraid.
  2. Sorely.
    • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan [1]
      ...[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.

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Sores

sore (plural sores)

  1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
    They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

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sore

  1. afternoon

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Latin sōl

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sore m. (definite singular sorele, plural sori)

  1. sun

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sore (kanji 其れ, hiragana それ)

  1. that one

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Japanese demonstratives (edit)
ko- so- a- do-
Object
Determiner
Kind んな んな んな んな
Place そこ*
Direction ちら ちら ちら ちら
っち っち っち っち
Human いつ いつ いつ いつ
Manner **
* irregular
** regular (long vowel)

[edit] Usage notes

  • The hiragana spelling (それ) is preferred to the kanji spelling (其れ), which is rarely used.
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