sour
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Tasting of acidity.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Hostile or unfriendly.
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- Off-pitch, out of tune.
Noun
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
Verb
- To make sour.
- To become sour.
- To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To become disenchanted.
- To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
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