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Definition of sore in English: soreadjective sɔːsɔr 1(of a part of one's body) painful or aching. （身体某部位）疼痛的 Example sentencesExamples - A sudden onset of high fever, headache, a transient body rash, a sore throat and cough are the first signs.
- Her whole body was sore, and she felt ready to go to bed.
- My whole body was sore and my legs ached as I made my way to the cafeteria.
- My body was still sore from the onslaught and I had not moved the few times I had woken.
- Her entire body was soon sore as she managed to sit up, rubbing at her throbbing head, trying to massage her temples.
- In diphtheria, the throat is moderately sore, with tender cervical adenopathy.
- It is known to help treat wounds, sore gums and throats and even acne.
- It usually focuses on specific areas of the body, such as sore joints or muscles, to improve mobility and reduce pain.
- It's possible that one may get a low-grade fever, slight sore throat, or muscle aches in the 24 hours following a flu shot.
- Topical pain relievers are creams, lotions, or sprays that you put on your skin to relieve pain from sore muscles and arthritis.
- Bobby felt quite a bit better the following morning, but his entire body was still sore.
- He winced slightly as pain shot from his sore ankle and into his knee.
- Every part of his body was sore, and he felt extremely exhausted, like he had been working non-stop for a week.
- Potential side-effects include sensitivity of the teeth to hot and cold, a sore throat, tender gums and white patches on the gums.
- Some people also have a fever, a sore throat, deep tiredness and body aches.
- Common symptoms of the flu include headache, chills, a dry cough, aches and fever and a sore throat.
- I mean headache, sore throat, muscle ache, stomachache, fever, and all that good stuff.
- After waking up with a sore throat, slight fever, and aches all over, I'm now realizing it's a good day to be sick.
- By Tuesday, your throat is sore, your joints ache and you feel lousy.
- A sore throat is excruciating, but when it is coupled with a fever and a headache and a clogged up nose, it is more than miserable.
Synonyms painful, in pain, hurting, hurt, aching, throbbing, smarting, stinging, burning, irritating, irritated, agonizing, excruciating inflamed, angry, red, reddened, sensitive, tender, delicate, chafed, raw, bruised, wounded, injured - 1.1 Suffering pain from a part of one's body.
感到疼痛的 he was sore from the long ride 他因为长时间骑车而感到全身疼痛。 Example sentencesExamples - I might be extremely sore today, but I was still managing to mix it up quite successfully with belts of my level last night…
- I'm already so sore inside that a little pain outside might actually be welcome, to create some equilibrium.
- The landing stunned me and I was really sore and in pain.
- He said he was stiff and sore but had no serious injuries.
- Even though all the pain was gone, I was still very sore and got tired easily which I didn't understand.
- I burst in to tears again, I quickly stumbled out of my bed, trying to run away, forgetting I was extremely sore.
- He was extremely sore but exhilarated at the same time.
- Either way, never use more weight than you can handle with perfect form, and slow down if you feel pain during a workout or are especially sore or stiff the next day.
2North American informal predicative Upset and angry. 〈非正式，主美〉恼火的；生气的 I didn't even know they were sore at us 我甚至不知道他们对我们很不满。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm sore from the hurt, from anger, from being left or having to leave, sore from all of that uninterrupted feeling.
- The Pacific Islander community is surely sore at being left out.
- And the politically correct meddlers, abiding in the town halls and government departments of the land, were sore annoyed.
- Had he been in a good mood, he might have spared me some suffering, but I'm sure he was still sore at me for yesterday morning.
- What really made people sore was a system of political cronyism that awarded jobs and benefits to ruling party sympathizers.
- The youth crowd around him and some take pictures; party activists feel sore at being kept away from him.
- I yelled too loud, but I was sore, angry and tired of being used as a large punching bag by a spoiled four-year old.
- The British are particularly sore at the moment, because they believe the IRA has the upper hand in what is essentially a phoney war.
- He looked at his buddies, all of whom were looking particularly sore at his victory.
- Bear and Tiger became my friend but falcon was still sore at me for nearly killing him the first time we meet in the master's house.
- Kamaria glowered, still sore at having not noticed Link's talent sooner and angry at Linden for agreeing with him.
- . He was angry, now, sore as a skunk and with enough whisky inside him to keep Jim Beam going for ten years or so.
- An old man was sore at having come to know about it so late in my life.
- Are you sore you missed out on the WotW trophy this week?
Synonyms upset, angry, annoyed, cross, angered, furious, enraged, in a temper, bothered, vexed, displeased, disgruntled, dissatisfied, indignant, exasperated, irritated, galled, irked, put out, aggrieved, offended, affronted, resentful, piqued, nettled, ruffled, in high dudgeon informal aggravated, miffed, peeved, riled, hacked off, peed off British informal narked, eggy, cheesed off, browned off, brassed off, not best pleased North American informal teed off, ticked off, steamed vulgar slang pissed off 3attributive Severe; urgent. 严峻的；紧急的 we're in sore need of him 我们急切需要他。 Example sentencesExamples - He said the annual extravaganza, held in Aberystwyth, was in sore need of funds.
Synonyms dire, urgent, pressing, desperate, critical, crucial, acute, grave, serious, intense, crying, burning, compelling, drastic, extreme, life-and-death, great, very great, terrible archaic or humorous parlous rare exigent
noun sɔːsɔr 1A raw or painful place on the body. 身体上的痛处 all of us had sores and infections on our hands 我们所有人的手上都有伤口而且感染了。 Example sentencesExamples - For the animals, they develop nasty, fluid-filled sores all over their bodies.
- There were open sores and wounds all over her body and she was hardly able to walk.
- Or you can mix 25 drops into 100 ml of hot water and gently apply to cuts, abrasions, sores and ulcers.
- One of the sores on her body had penetrated to the bone.
- Melphalan may cause nausea, vomiting diarrhea, and severe mucositis with painful mouth sores.
- Your partner could pass the infection to you even if there are no painful sores.
- Some women are missing limbs, some women have sores over their body.
- After a few days, of course, the Avalyskians began to notice sores on their bodies and realized something was up.
- People generally try to avoid brown recluse spiders because their bites fester into painful sores.
- Painful spots or blisters turn into open sores, which scab over and heal.
- He was lean and muscular, but painful scars and sores ran across his body like tattoos.
- Peptic ulcers are open sores that develop on the inside lining of your stomach, upper small intestine or esophagus.
- You can use them to treat sores, bruises, cuts, boils and inflammatory skin conditions.
- A mouth ulcer is a painful sore in the mouth on either the cheeks or gums.
- So she was left alone, with her body full of sores, especially on her head.
- He had red sores all over his body, and his skin and hair was white.
- In late summer this year, she was found wandering around South Milford, near Selby, covered in painful sores and having difficulty in breathing.
- Children with Coxsackie virus may become dehydrated because mouth sores can make it painful to eat and drink.
- The water is completely polluted in all of these villages and the people have horrible sores on their bodies.
- The sores are sometimes very painful but generally heal in 1 to 2 weeks without scarring.
Synonyms inflammation, swelling, lesion wound, scrape, abrasion, chafe, cut, laceration, graze, contusion, bruise running sore, ulcer, ulceration, boil, abscess, carbuncle, canker - 1.1 A cause or source of distress or annoyance.
痛处，伤心事 there's no point raking over the past and opening old sores 翻老账、揭开旧疮疤没有任何意义。 Example sentencesExamples - The Secretary argued that the reopening of all these old sores would benefit none but Germany.
- The traditionalists of the discontinuant left keep scratching the same old sores.
- One poor display does not make a team a bad one, but problems that had been festering broke out into full-blown sores.
- His case was a microcosm of a large, festering sore in the body of the entire Catholic Church.
- Saturn points to all the open sores and cherished old wounds where we feel vulnerable to attack.
- Old sores weighed heavily on his mind and he vowed to repay them.
- For most of Elizabeth's reign, Ireland remained a festering sore in the Tudor body politic.
- Now her neighbours are campaigning for action to eradicate the problem, which has been a running sore in the neighbourhood for several years.
- Perhaps it does not go too far to assert that until the Kashmir sore is at last healed, the poison that produced Gujarat will make other Gujarats increasingly likely.
- It was a nasty game where old sores festered and attempts were made to settle long standing bitterness.
- Regardless of its symbolic significance, however, Sangatte remains a pressing problem in its own right, and a running sore in Anglo-French relations.
- The report adverts to a problem, which was to become a running sore, of allocating cash received by VKV to particular invoices.
adverb sɔːsɔr archaic Extremely; severely. 〈古〉极度地；严厉地 他们极度恐惧。 Example sentencesExamples - I pounded on her door, and as I did I heard my own heart pounding, for I was sore afraid that someone might be up and after me.
- And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.
- The eclipse started, the natives were sore afraid, and Columbus eventually agreed to ‘return the Moon’ in return for food.
- The men were sore afraid, but such was the confidence of Moses they were willing to follow him.
- And such men were sore afraid for the sons of Kahn.
Synonyms very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely
PhrasesAn issue about which someone feels distressed or annoyed and which it is therefore advisable to avoid raising with them. （谈话中应当回避的）痛处（或伤心事） money was a sore point between us Example sentencesExamples - At a recent post-dinner drink I had with the man in Berlin, the sting of the crowd (some of whom booed him off the stage before a proposed encore) was still a sore point.
- What is perhaps even more disturbing is that the PM made absolutely no mention of security measures at the nation's schools - what has been a sore point for certain principals as well.
- She knew that had always been a sore point between them.
- Not long ago the issue of my height had been something of a sore point with me.
- ‘That's a major sore point for a lot of people,’ he said.
- The question of the Western Sahara remains one of the most intractable Arab-African problems, as well as a long-lasting sore point between Algeria and Morocco.
- A man's roots are always a sore point to him, especially when he doesn't believe they run deep enough to support the tree he's currently hanging from.
- American carriers, always a sore point for the enemy since the ships had escaped the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, were the prime targets in the Philippine invasion.
- Another issue that constitutes a sore point in international criminal proceedings is the media coverage of the detention and trial of the accused.
- This development came after the company found that after-sales service has become a sore point with consumers purchasing consumer electronics and durables in the market.
stand (or stick) out like a sore thumb Be very obviously different from the surrounding people or things. 显得很不自然；与周围的人（或事物）格格不入 you stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform Example sentencesExamples - We stuck out like a sore thumb: all pale skin and wearing black.
- The Times said that the theft was clearly the work of ‘a suspect, a scientist [who] stuck out like a sore thumb.’
- It will come as a relief to residents of Old Broadway, all of whom were fiercely opposed to something that would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
- Is it going to be really stuck out like a sore thumb or is it going to blend in with the rolling hills and the space in that area?
- I stuck out like a sore thumb because I was brought up to be polite and people are not quite sincere there.
- The structure is the most terrible garish monstrosity - it sticks out like a sore thumb in the green belt.
- The café was busy and loud, if people took the time to notice, we stood out like a sore thumb.
- From a distance the house sticks out like a sore thumb across the countryside.
- I stood out like a sore thumb in my lisle knee-socks and street clothes.
- The centre has stuck out like a sore thumb for many, many years and at last something is being done.
OriginOld English sār (noun and adjective), sāre (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeer 'sore' and German sehr 'very'. The original sense was 'causing intense pain, grievous', whence the adverbial use. Rhymesabhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your Definition of sore in US English: soreadjectivesôrsɔr 1(of a part of one's body) painful or aching. （身体某部位）疼痛的 my feet were sore and my head ached 我的脚和头都很痛。 Example sentencesExamples - Her whole body was sore, and she felt ready to go to bed.
- It is known to help treat wounds, sore gums and throats and even acne.
- It usually focuses on specific areas of the body, such as sore joints or muscles, to improve mobility and reduce pain.
- Bobby felt quite a bit better the following morning, but his entire body was still sore.
- My body was still sore from the onslaught and I had not moved the few times I had woken.
- By Tuesday, your throat is sore, your joints ache and you feel lousy.
- Potential side-effects include sensitivity of the teeth to hot and cold, a sore throat, tender gums and white patches on the gums.
- Topical pain relievers are creams, lotions, or sprays that you put on your skin to relieve pain from sore muscles and arthritis.
- Every part of his body was sore, and he felt extremely exhausted, like he had been working non-stop for a week.
- I mean headache, sore throat, muscle ache, stomachache, fever, and all that good stuff.
- A sudden onset of high fever, headache, a transient body rash, a sore throat and cough are the first signs.
- It's possible that one may get a low-grade fever, slight sore throat, or muscle aches in the 24 hours following a flu shot.
- Common symptoms of the flu include headache, chills, a dry cough, aches and fever and a sore throat.
- A sore throat is excruciating, but when it is coupled with a fever and a headache and a clogged up nose, it is more than miserable.
- Some people also have a fever, a sore throat, deep tiredness and body aches.
- Her entire body was soon sore as she managed to sit up, rubbing at her throbbing head, trying to massage her temples.
- He winced slightly as pain shot from his sore ankle and into his knee.
- My whole body was sore and my legs ached as I made my way to the cafeteria.
- In diphtheria, the throat is moderately sore, with tender cervical adenopathy.
- After waking up with a sore throat, slight fever, and aches all over, I'm now realizing it's a good day to be sick.
Synonyms painful, in pain, hurting, hurt, aching, throbbing, smarting, stinging, burning, irritating, irritated, agonizing, excruciating - 1.1predicative Suffering pain from a part of one's body.
感到疼痛的 he was sore from the long ride 他因为长时间骑车而感到全身疼痛。 Example sentencesExamples - I burst in to tears again, I quickly stumbled out of my bed, trying to run away, forgetting I was extremely sore.
- I might be extremely sore today, but I was still managing to mix it up quite successfully with belts of my level last night…
- Either way, never use more weight than you can handle with perfect form, and slow down if you feel pain during a workout or are especially sore or stiff the next day.
- I'm already so sore inside that a little pain outside might actually be welcome, to create some equilibrium.
- Even though all the pain was gone, I was still very sore and got tired easily which I didn't understand.
- The landing stunned me and I was really sore and in pain.
- He was extremely sore but exhilarated at the same time.
- He said he was stiff and sore but had no serious injuries.
- 1.2North American informal predicative Upset and angry.
〈非正式，主美〉恼火的；生气的 I didn't even know they were sore at us 我甚至不知道他们对我们很不满。 Example sentencesExamples - Bear and Tiger became my friend but falcon was still sore at me for nearly killing him the first time we meet in the master's house.
- . He was angry, now, sore as a skunk and with enough whisky inside him to keep Jim Beam going for ten years or so.
- The British are particularly sore at the moment, because they believe the IRA has the upper hand in what is essentially a phoney war.
- What really made people sore was a system of political cronyism that awarded jobs and benefits to ruling party sympathizers.
- And the politically correct meddlers, abiding in the town halls and government departments of the land, were sore annoyed.
- The youth crowd around him and some take pictures; party activists feel sore at being kept away from him.
- Are you sore you missed out on the WotW trophy this week?
- I'm sore from the hurt, from anger, from being left or having to leave, sore from all of that uninterrupted feeling.
- The Pacific Islander community is surely sore at being left out.
- An old man was sore at having come to know about it so late in my life.
- Kamaria glowered, still sore at having not noticed Link's talent sooner and angry at Linden for agreeing with him.
- He looked at his buddies, all of whom were looking particularly sore at his victory.
- Had he been in a good mood, he might have spared me some suffering, but I'm sure he was still sore at me for yesterday morning.
- I yelled too loud, but I was sore, angry and tired of being used as a large punching bag by a spoiled four-year old.
Synonyms upset, angry, annoyed, cross, angered, furious, enraged, in a temper, bothered, vexed, displeased, disgruntled, dissatisfied, indignant, exasperated, irritated, galled, irked, put out, aggrieved, offended, affronted, resentful, piqued, nettled, ruffled, in high dudgeon - 1.3attributive Severe; urgent.
严峻的；紧急的 we're in sore need of him 我们急切需要他。 Example sentencesExamples - He said the annual extravaganza, held in Aberystwyth, was in sore need of funds.
Synonyms dire, urgent, pressing, desperate, critical, crucial, acute, grave, serious, intense, crying, burning, compelling, drastic, extreme, life-and-death, great, very great, terrible
nounsôrsɔr 1A raw or painful place on the body. 身体上的痛处 we had sores on our hands Example sentencesExamples - For the animals, they develop nasty, fluid-filled sores all over their bodies.
- Or you can mix 25 drops into 100 ml of hot water and gently apply to cuts, abrasions, sores and ulcers.
- One of the sores on her body had penetrated to the bone.
- Melphalan may cause nausea, vomiting diarrhea, and severe mucositis with painful mouth sores.
- After a few days, of course, the Avalyskians began to notice sores on their bodies and realized something was up.
- People generally try to avoid brown recluse spiders because their bites fester into painful sores.
- A mouth ulcer is a painful sore in the mouth on either the cheeks or gums.
- Peptic ulcers are open sores that develop on the inside lining of your stomach, upper small intestine or esophagus.
- There were open sores and wounds all over her body and she was hardly able to walk.
- Your partner could pass the infection to you even if there are no painful sores.
- So she was left alone, with her body full of sores, especially on her head.
- Children with Coxsackie virus may become dehydrated because mouth sores can make it painful to eat and drink.
- He was lean and muscular, but painful scars and sores ran across his body like tattoos.
- You can use them to treat sores, bruises, cuts, boils and inflammatory skin conditions.
- Painful spots or blisters turn into open sores, which scab over and heal.
- He had red sores all over his body, and his skin and hair was white.
- The water is completely polluted in all of these villages and the people have horrible sores on their bodies.
- In late summer this year, she was found wandering around South Milford, near Selby, covered in painful sores and having difficulty in breathing.
- The sores are sometimes very painful but generally heal in 1 to 2 weeks without scarring.
- Some women are missing limbs, some women have sores over their body.
Synonyms inflammation, swelling, lesion - 1.1 A cause or source of distress or annoyance.
痛处，伤心事 there's no point raking over the past and opening old sores 翻老账、揭开旧疮疤没有任何意义。 Example sentencesExamples - The traditionalists of the discontinuant left keep scratching the same old sores.
- Regardless of its symbolic significance, however, Sangatte remains a pressing problem in its own right, and a running sore in Anglo-French relations.
- His case was a microcosm of a large, festering sore in the body of the entire Catholic Church.
- It was a nasty game where old sores festered and attempts were made to settle long standing bitterness.
- Old sores weighed heavily on his mind and he vowed to repay them.
- One poor display does not make a team a bad one, but problems that had been festering broke out into full-blown sores.
- Perhaps it does not go too far to assert that until the Kashmir sore is at last healed, the poison that produced Gujarat will make other Gujarats increasingly likely.
- Now her neighbours are campaigning for action to eradicate the problem, which has been a running sore in the neighbourhood for several years.
- Saturn points to all the open sores and cherished old wounds where we feel vulnerable to attack.
- The Secretary argued that the reopening of all these old sores would benefit none but Germany.
- For most of Elizabeth's reign, Ireland remained a festering sore in the Tudor body politic.
- The report adverts to a problem, which was to become a running sore, of allocating cash received by VKV to particular invoices.
adverbsôrsɔr archaic Extremely; severely. 〈古〉极度地；严厉地 他们极度恐惧。 Example sentencesExamples - I pounded on her door, and as I did I heard my own heart pounding, for I was sore afraid that someone might be up and after me.
- And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.
- And such men were sore afraid for the sons of Kahn.
- The eclipse started, the natives were sore afraid, and Columbus eventually agreed to ‘return the Moon’ in return for food.
- The men were sore afraid, but such was the confidence of Moses they were willing to follow him.
Synonyms very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely
PhrasesA subject or issue about which someone feels distressed or annoyed. money was a sore point between us Example sentencesExamples - The question of the Western Sahara remains one of the most intractable Arab-African problems, as well as a long-lasting sore point between Algeria and Morocco.
- American carriers, always a sore point for the enemy since the ships had escaped the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, were the prime targets in the Philippine invasion.
- At a recent post-dinner drink I had with the man in Berlin, the sting of the crowd (some of whom booed him off the stage before a proposed encore) was still a sore point.
- Not long ago the issue of my height had been something of a sore point with me.
- What is perhaps even more disturbing is that the PM made absolutely no mention of security measures at the nation's schools - what has been a sore point for certain principals as well.
- ‘That's a major sore point for a lot of people,’ he said.
- A man's roots are always a sore point to him, especially when he doesn't believe they run deep enough to support the tree he's currently hanging from.
- Another issue that constitutes a sore point in international criminal proceedings is the media coverage of the detention and trial of the accused.
- This development came after the company found that after-sales service has become a sore point with consumers purchasing consumer electronics and durables in the market.
- She knew that had always been a sore point between them.
stand (or stick) out like a sore thumb Be obviously different from the surrounding people or things. 显得很不自然；与周围的人（或事物）格格不入 Example sentencesExamples - It will come as a relief to residents of Old Broadway, all of whom were fiercely opposed to something that would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
- The Times said that the theft was clearly the work of ‘a suspect, a scientist [who] stuck out like a sore thumb.’
- The centre has stuck out like a sore thumb for many, many years and at last something is being done.
- The café was busy and loud, if people took the time to notice, we stood out like a sore thumb.
- From a distance the house sticks out like a sore thumb across the countryside.
- We stuck out like a sore thumb: all pale skin and wearing black.
- I stuck out like a sore thumb because I was brought up to be polite and people are not quite sincere there.
- Is it going to be really stuck out like a sore thumb or is it going to blend in with the rolling hills and the space in that area?
- The structure is the most terrible garish monstrosity - it sticks out like a sore thumb in the green belt.
- I stood out like a sore thumb in my lisle knee-socks and street clothes.
OriginOld English sār (noun and adjective), sāre (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeer ‘sore’ and German sehr ‘very’. The original sense was ‘causing intense pain, grievous’, whence the adverbial use. |