soars

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of soar.

   A hawk soars on the warm air currents without flapping its wings.

   Demand soars every summer as temperatures climb toward record highs.

   Note

   The -s here marks agreement with a single third-person subject: the hawk soars, but hawks soar. Because the verb is intransitive, soars takes no object. What follows is a place or a path: soars over the ridge, soars into the clouds. It stretches easily from flight to figures, so spirits, hopes and prices all soar. The same spelling also serves as the plural noun, told apart by what stands before it.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of soar.

   Note

   A countable use of a noun that usually names the act of soaring. Once a soar is a single upward flight, it can be counted: several soars, a glider's long soars. The plural adds a plain -s, so it is spelled exactly like the present-tense verb in "the eagle soars." A determiner or number in front marks the noun. A singular subject in front marks the verb.

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