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sore

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Adjective

  1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
  2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  3. Dire; distressing.
  4. Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
  5. Criminal; wrong; evil.

Adverb

  1. Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  2. Sorely.

Noun

  1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
  2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  3. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  4. A young buck in its fourth year.
  5. Acronym of small off-road engine.

Verb

  1. To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

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