sore
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
- Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
- Dire; distressing.
- Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
- Criminal; wrong; evil.
Adverb
- Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
- Sorely.
Noun
- An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
- Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
- A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
- A young buck in its fourth year.
- Acronym of small off-road engine.
Verb
- To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
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