sore

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Care of the injured part to prevent the skin from breaking and causing a sore is the only thing left to be done.

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  1. adjective Painful to the touch; tender.
  2. adjective Feeling physical pain; hurting: sore all over.
  3. adjective Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous: in sore need.
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  • I can not forget how he looked, the sore was a sickening sight; yet, when he was able to walk he had to return to work in the field. —  Thirty Years a Slave
  • But they were lame and foot-sore, and next morning, when they had limped six miles or so farther, —  The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
  • Care of the injured part to prevent the skin from breaking and causing a sore is the only thing left to be done. —  On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
  • I can not forget how he looked, the sore was a sickening sight; yet, when he was able to walk he had to return to work in the field I had not been at Pontotoc very long when I saw the hounds run a slave, by name Ben Lyon. —  Thirty Years a Slave
  • "Lying up there in the dark, hearing noises - and not able to put a light on. —  The Rockingdown Mystery
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sār.

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  1. Scots sair, sare; from Middle English sore, sare, sor, sar, from Anglo-Saxon sār, painful, = OS, sēr = Middle Dutch seer, Dutch zeer = Middle Low German sēr = Old High German Middle High German sēr, painful, wounded, = Icelandic sārr = Norwegian saar, sore (cf. Swedish sår = Danish saar, wound, = Gothic (Moesogothic) sair, sorrow, travail, found only as a noun). Cf. Finn, sairas, sick (from Teutonic), No cognates are found outside of Teutonic
  2. from Middle English sore, sare, sor, from Anglo-Saxon sār = Old Saxon sēr = Middle Low German sēr = Old High German Middle High German sēr, pain, suffering, = Icelandic sār = Norwegian saar = Swedish sår = Danish saar, a wound, = Goth, sair, sorrow, travail; from the adjective Cf. sorry,
  3. Scots sair, sare; from Middle English sore, soore, sare, from Anglo-Saxon sāre, sorely, painfully, = Old Saxon sēro = Middle Dutch sere, D. zeer = Middle Low German sēre = Old High German sēro, Middle High German sēre, sēr, painfully, sorely, strongly, very, German sehr, extremely, very, = Danish saare, extremely, very; from the adjective
  4. = Old Saxon sērian = Old High German Middle High German sēren, German ver-sehren = Icelandic sārna = Swedish såra = Danish saare; from the noun.
  5. I. a. Early modern English also soar, soare; from Middle English sore, soyr, from Old French sor, saur, French saur, saure = Provencal sor, saur = Spanish soro = Italian soro, sauro (Middle Latin saurus, sorius), reddish-brown, reddish, brownish, sorrel, from Middle Low German sor = Middle Dutch sore, Dutch zoor, dry, withered, sear, = English sear: see sear, • of which sore is a doublet, and sorrel, a diminutive of sore. II. n. from Middle English *sore, sowre, a buck, from Old French sor, French saur (in faucon sor, a sore-falcon, cheval saure, or simply saure, a sorrel horse) = Italian soro, sauro, a sorrel horse, formerly also a sore-falcon: see the adjective Cf. sorrel.
 

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