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Soured

Sour \Sour\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soured; p. pr. & vb. n. Souring.] To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.
--Addison.

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soured
  1. That has become, or has been made sour. v

  2. (en-past of: sour)

WordNet
soured

adj. having turned bad [ant: unsoured]

Usage examples of "soured".

He was still terrified, but overriding the scent of ammonia was the soured milk smell of disbelief.

I admit that your lovely visage is a delightful change from the soured old men who usually attend these conferences.

The memory of lost toray would have soured the taste of whatever else I fed upon this darkness.

She had years in which to find anything else that might have been hidden-years to brood on his defection, as she thought it, to become cynical and soured and old.

Goodson remained a bachelor, and by-and-by became a soured one and a frank despiser of the human species.