sore

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Painful to the touch; tender.
2. adj. Feeling physical pain; hurting: sore all over.
3. adj. Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous: in sore need.
4. adj. Causing embarrassment or irritation: a sore subject.
5. adj. Full of distress; sorrowful.
6. adj. Informal Angry; offended.
7. n. An open skin lesion, wound, or ulcer.
8. n. A source of pain, distress, or irritation.
9. v. To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
10. adv. Archaic Sorely.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Painful, as being the seat of a wound or of disease; aching; specifically, painfully sensitive to the touch: said of the part affected, or, by extension, of the entire member or person concerned.
2. Inflicting physical suffering; giving bodily pain.
3. Suffering mental pain; distressed; painfully sensitive; touchy.
4. Bringing sorrow, misery, or regret; distressing; grievous; oppressive.
5. Associated with painful ideas or feelings; accompanied by grief, anger, mortification, regret, discomfort, or the like; serving as an occasion of bitterness: as, a sore subject.
6. Severe; violent; fierce.
7. Exceeding; extreme; intense.
8. Wretched: vile; worthless; base.
9. n. A state of suffering or pain; grief; sorrow; misery.
10. n. A wounded or diseased spot on an animal body; a painful or painfully tender place, with or without solution of continuity, on or near the surface of the body.
11. n. A source of grief, distress, annoyance, or bitterness; a misfortune; a trouble.
12. With physical suffering; so as to cause bodily pain; painfully.
13. In a manner indicating or causing mental pain; deplorably; grievously; bitterly.
14. Violently; fiercely; severely.
15. Exceedingly; thoroughly; intensely.
16. Firmly; tightly; fast.
17. To make sore; wound.
18. Reddish-brown; sorrel. See sorrel, and compare sorage, sore-eagle, sore-falcon, sore-hawk.
19. n. A hawk of the first year.
20. n. A buck of the fourth year. See sorrel, 3.
21. An obsolete spelling of soar.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
2. adj. Dire; distressing.
3. adj. informal Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
4. adv. archaic Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
5. adv. Sorely.
6. n. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. rare Reddish brown; sorrel.
2. n. (Zoöl.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
3. n. (Zoöl.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
4. adj. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts.
5. adj. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
6. adj. Severe; afflictive; distressing.
7. adj. obsolete Criminal; wrong; evil.
8. n. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
9. n. Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
10. adv. In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
11. adv. Greatly; violently; deeply.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. roused to anger
2. adj. hurting.
3. n. an open skin infection
4. adj. causing misery or pain or distress