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Definition of Sore

Sore

Reddish brown; sorrel.

A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

Criminal; wrong; evil.

A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.

Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

Greatly; violently; deeply.

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Sore Quotations

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Henry Ward Beecher

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Elton John

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Terence

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Warren Cuccurullo

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.
David Selby

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
W. G. Sebald

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
Elisabeth Rohm

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
Peter Cushing

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
Goran Ivanisevic

A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.
Warren Spahn

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
Henry Walter Bates

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Harold Coffin

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Sore Translations

sore in Dutch is zweer
sore in German is wund, schlimm
sore in Latin is vomica
sore in Spanish is dolorido

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