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Sorer

Sore \Sore\, a. [Compar. Sorer; superl. Sorest.] [OE. sor, sar, AS. s[=a]r; akin to D. zeer, OS. & OHG. s?r, G. sehr very, Icel. s[=a]rr, Sw. s[*a]r, Goth. sair pain. Cf. Sorry.]

  1. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

  2. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

    Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
    --Tillotson.

  3. Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
    --Shak.

  4. Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Sore throat (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche.

    Malignant sore throat, Ulcerated sore throat or Putrid sore throat. See Angina, and under Putrid.

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sorer

a. (en-comparative of: sore)

Usage examples of "sorer".

Sitting bolt upright all the way from Richmond had left him sorer than he would have been from the same amount of time in the saddle.

So they drove away and left a white-faced woman watching them from the door, her heart a little sorer than usual.

If I kept on rubbing them, I knew they would only get sorer and sorer.

WOKE FOR THE second morning in a row feeling stiffer and sorer than she had ever felt before.

The whole parish mourned for him, and there was not a sorer heart in all its bounds than my own.

I will confess that it sticks in my throat to stir one step myself into the gloom of the pines, when I ken what has been transacted there, and it sticks sorer to have you in that unholy place.