Usually means: Painful or tender when touched.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. sore: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sore: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sore, sore: Wordnik
  7. sore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sore: Wiktionary
  9. sore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sore: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sore: Dictionary.com
  13. sore (adj.), sore (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sore: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sore (band), Sore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sore: Rhymezone
  19. sore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sore: Free Dictionary
  22. sore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sore: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. sore: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sore: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sore: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sore: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. sore: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. sore: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Sore: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SORE: Acronym Finder
  3. sore: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SORE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sore, sore, sore: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sore: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See soreness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
adjective:  Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
adjective:  Dire; distressing.
adjective:  (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
adjective:  (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
adverb:  (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
adverb:  Sorely.
noun:  An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
noun:  Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
verb:  (transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
noun:  A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
noun:  A young buck in its fourth year.

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