A pain that is felt when the area is touched

Usage examples of soreness.

This was nothing unusual, however, so Mary simply broke through the ice and began her morning ablutions, gratefully noticing that gentle movement reduced the soreness in her wrists.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeno.

Her arm had a puckery scar that looked old, well-healed, but no soreness, even when she raised it high overhead.

Crushed leaves of star boronia, steeped, wash away soreness of the sinews.

Difficulty of swallowing, soreness, and stiffness of the throat, are the first monitions of its approach.

The soreness of that disappointment was intensified when they saw this Western man in the White House, with so much of rustic manner and speech as still clung to him, meeting his fellow-citizens, high and low, on a footing of equality, with the simplicity of his good nature unburdened by any conventional dignity of deportment, and dealing with the great business of state in an easy-going, unmethodical, and apparently somewhat irreverent way.

I soon began to improve and after using three bottles each of the above named remedies the pain and soreness left my ear, my hearing returned and I considered myself completely cured, and indeed there has been no recurrence of the trouble since.

When I first commenced using your medicine I was suffering from female weakness, leucorrhea, bearing-down pains and a soreness across me that at times I could hardly stand up straight when I would get up off of my chair to walk across the room.

Short, acute, painful coughs, with soreness in the lungs and no expectoration.

I’ll administer an antiinflammatory to deal with the residual muscle soreness.

She had that awful sense of physical soreness and shrinking which violence, whether their own or others', brings to gentle souls.

She had a slight soreness in her neck where Mari had installed the binaural radio and voder that went with the suit.

Dorrin clambers off Meriwhen, wincing at the continuing soreness in his thighs.

Not physically—he suffered, albeit to a lesser degree, from the same problems as Enterprise’s human crew, an inability to (as the doctor put it) “tolerate” some of the Denari foods, a general malaise, a growing stiffness and soreness in his body that he attributed to certain chemical deficiencies—but mentally.