sour
noun
- 1
The sensation of a sour taste.
- 2
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- 3
(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- 4
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- 5
The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
verb
- 1
To make sour.
“Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.”
- 2
To become sour.
- 3
To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- 4
To become disenchanted.
“We broke up after our relationship soured.”
- 5
To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- 6
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- 7
To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
adjective
- 1
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
“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) Peevish or bad-tempered.
“He gave me a sour look.”
- 5
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
“a sour marsh”
- 6
(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
“sour gas smells like rotten eggs”
- 7
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- 8
Off-pitch, out of tune.
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