sore

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And for the next couple of days, you are a bit sore from it.

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an open skin infection

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sore gathered in one view.

noun

an open skin infection

adjective

hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"

adjective

causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sore.

noun

an open skin infection

adjective

hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"

adjective

causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

adjective

roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

Example sentences

And for the next couple of days, you are a bit sore from it.

The "cultural fit" stuff is a sore spot with me.

The results is I'm super sore and it feels great.

I used to get a sore back from coding all the time, and I don't any more.

It's that the Jews hit a lot of different sore points in human history.

My sore points are more about deployments and updating smaller things, like the image of a link.

A common side effect of the drug is that it makes you a bit achy and sore, as if you had gone on a long hike the day before.

But it has been an ongoing sore relentlessly sucking up multiple peoples' time, of the issues I outlined above.

"Of course, as he notes, it can't tell the difference between regular and hidden volumes, but once again: the hidden volumes will still stick out like a sore thumb and clearly be encrypted data.

Weak temporal support has long been the sore point in SQL.-- Remote dataI was struck by their observation that most database storage engines are built around the concept of seeks and reads, whereas theirs is necessarily built around batching and pipelining over a network.