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adjective | noun soresore1 /sɔr/ ●●● S3 adjective ETYMOLOGYsore1Origin: Old English sar ► a sore throat Val woke up with a sore throat and a temperature of 102°. THESAURUSif part of your body is painful, you feel pain in it► painfulif part of your body is painful, you feel pain in it: Jim’s knee was still painful where he had fallen on it. ► tender painful when touched: Your arm may be tender for a few days after the shot. ► stiff painful and difficult to move: I woke up with a stiff neck after sleeping on the airplane. ► aching painful in a way that continues but is not too strong. Used especially about muscles and heads: After a day of standing on her feet, she just wanted someone to rub her aching back. ► sore painful as a result of an infection or too much exercise: My throat is really sore. I think I’m catching a cold. It’s common for runners to have sore leg muscles. ► raw painful, red, and sore. Used especially about skin that has been rubbed too much: I worked in the garden all day, and now my hands are red and raw. feel pain► hurt to feel pain in a part of your body: My feet hurt. It hurts when I try to move my leg. ► be sore to feel a dull pain in a muscle because it has been injured or used more than usual: I’m always sore the day after I work out at the gym. ► be tender to feel slightly sore or painful when touched: Her knee feels tender where she banged it. ► ache to feel a continuous pain: My back was aching. ► throb to feel pain that gets stronger and weaker in a repeated way: She held her throbbing hand under the cold water. ► burn to hurt with hot pain in your eyes, throat, or skin: Angela had a headache and her throat was burning. ► sting to hurt with a sudden sharp pain in your eyes, throat, or skin: My eyes were stinging from sweat and sunscreen. 1a part of your body that is sore is painful and often red because of a wound or infection, or because you have used a muscle too much: My legs are still sore today. Val woke up with a sore throat and a temperature of 102°.► see thesaurus at painful, hurt12a sore point/spot/subject something that is likely to make someone upset or angry when you talk about it: Money is still a sore point with many employees.3a sore loser someone who always gets very angry and upset after losing a game, competition, etc.4stick/stand out like a sore thumb informal someone or something that sticks out like a sore thumb is very noticeable and clearly different from everyone or everything else5written great: We are in sore need of help.6[not before noun] old-fashioned upset, angry, and annoyed, especially because you have not been treated fairly: sore at/about Is he still sore at us? [Origin: Old English sar] → see also a sight for sore eyes at sight1 (13) adjective | noun soresore2 noun [countable] THESAURUS a wound or damage to part of your body caused by an accident or attack► injury a wound or damage to part of your body caused by an accident or attack: Smith has missed several games because of injury. She was treated in the hospital for minor injuries (=ones that are not serious). ► wound an injury, especially a deep cut made in your skin by a knife or bullet: He needed emergency treatment for a gunshot wound. ► cut a small wound you get if a sharp object cuts your skin: She has a cut on her finger from when she was chopping carrots. ► scratch a small cut on someone’s skin that is not deep: His legs were covered in scratches and bruises. ► scrape/abrasion a lot of small cuts on one area of someone’s skin, caused for example by falling down. Abrasion is mostly used in medical language: The girl had scrapes on both knees. ► laceration formal a bad cut or tear on the skin. Used especially in medical language: She suffered facial lacerations in the attack. ► bruise/contusion a black or blue mark on your skin that you get when you fall or get hit. Contusion is mostly used in medical language: There was a dark bruise on her cheek. ► sore/lesion a wound or cut on your skin that is painful and infected. Lesion is mostly used in medical language: The sore on his hand was slow to heal. ► sprain an injury to a joint in your body, caused by suddenly twisting it: He hurt himself during the game, but it’s just a slight sprain. ► bump/swelling an area of skin that is swollen because you have hit it on something. Swelling is more formal than bump: She has a bump on her forehead from when she banged it on the cupboard door. ► fracture a crack or broken part in a bone: X-rays showed a small fracture. ► break a place where a bone has broken: The doctor used a model of the arm bone to show me where the break is. feel pain► hurt to feel pain in a part of your body: My feet hurt. It hurts when I try to move my leg. ► be sore to feel a dull pain in a muscle because it has been injured or used more than usual: I’m always sore the day after I work out at the gym. ► be tender to feel slightly sore or painful when touched: Her knee feels tender where she banged it. ► ache to feel a continuous pain: My back was aching. ► throb to feel pain that gets stronger and weaker in a repeated way: She held her throbbing hand under the cold water. ► burn to hurt with hot pain in your eyes, throat, or skin: Angela had a headache and her throat was burning. ► sting to hurt with a sudden sharp pain in your eyes, throat, or skin: My eyes were stinging from sweat and sunscreen. a painful, often red, place on your body caused by a wound or infection
► see thesaurus at injury, hurt1 → see also bedsore, cold sore |