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sore
noun
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
They put ointment and a bandage on the .
Translations:
French: plaie
(fr)
Italian: ferita
(it, piaga, f}}, ulcera
(it)
f, {{t+, it)f
Spanish: llaga
(es)
f
adjective
(
sor, er, est
)
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Her feet were from walking so far.
Feeling animosity towards; annoyed or angered.
Joe was at Bob for beating him at checkers.
dire, Dire; distressing.
The school was in
sore'
need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
Translations:
French: douloureux
(fr)
German: sauer
(de)
Italian: doloroso, dolorante, infiammato, ...fa male
(...is sore)
adverb
(
archaic
) sorely, 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 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.
Etymology:
sÄr
.
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