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säuern
, vergällen
, sauer werden lassen
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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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• Sourt
- (n.) A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.
- (n.) A shoot; a bud.
- (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.
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• Soured
- (imp. & p. p.) of Sour
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polytechnic, polo, frustrate, cosmopolite, aeon, sermon, derivation, monovalent, pliable, token, bald eagle, phiz, circumstances, intensify, dangerous, terracotta, deflate, day nursery, dawn, davit, veer, geneticist, gambol, misname, general-purpose, detail, distress, sonority, peccary, davenport, shade, food, |
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Sparkle, Thank, Feel, You, Love, Kiss, Weaken, Be, Glitter, Blend, I, Do, Go, Abash, Dark, Slash, Boy, Shorten, Endure, Bride, Trend, Girl, Abbreviate, Dedicate, Romance, Father, Sparkling, Gash, Feeling, Run, Thanks, Abductor, |
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