sour
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Tasting of acidity.
Lemons have a sour taste.
- 2.
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
- 3.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
- 4.
(of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
He gave me a sour look.
- 5.
Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
sour land
a sour marsh
- 6.
Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
sour gas smells like rotten eggs
- 7.
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- 8.
(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The sensation of a sour taste.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- 3.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
- 2.
(intransitive)To become sour.
- 3.
(transitive)To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- 4.
(intransitive)To become disenchanted.
We broke up after our relationship soured.
- 5.
(transitive)To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- 6.
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- 7.
(transitive)To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
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From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (sour), from *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (sour), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (sour).