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aigrir
, devenir aigre
, faire tourner
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Sour
- (v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
- (superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
- (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
- (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
- (v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
- (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
- (v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
- (superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
- (superl.) Afflictive; painful.
- (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- (v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
- (v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
Synonyms:
Acetify, Acidify, Acidity, Acidulate, Dark, Dour, False, Ferment, Glowering, Glum, Moody, Morose, Off, Rancid, Saturnine, Sourness, Sullen, Tartness, Turn, Turned, Work,
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• Sourkrout
- (n.) Same as Sauerkraut.
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• Sours
- (n.) Source. See Source.
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coldly, coincide, coinage, coin, ambidexter, cohere, clef, nickname, cleavage, banging, cleanup, chrysanthemum, pull back, anticyclone, chromosome, banish, charity, abandoned, stomach, doubled, chaplain, chaos, cardigan, carder, cardamom, carcinogen, nightingale, caravan, carafe, ranting, capture, lien, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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