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soare

UK/sɔː//sɔɹ/

soare is the obsolete form of sore.

Meaning of sore

Noun (1)

sore (plural sores)

  1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
    • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
  2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
    • I see plainly where his sore lies.1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC

Noun (2)

sore (plural sores)

  1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
    • Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie
  2. A young buck in its fourth year.
    • Some say a Sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting.
    • The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket:
    • Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting.
    • If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell:
    • Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Forms of soare

pluralsoares

Words that rhyme with soare

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Questions about soare

What is soare the obsolete form of?
Soare is the obsolete form of sore.
How do you pronounce soare?
Soare is pronounced /sɔː/ (UK).

Words near soare in the dictionary

  1. soarability
  2. soarable
  3. soaraway
  4. Soard
  5. Soards
  6. soare
  7. soared
  8. soarer
  9. soarers
  10. soares
  11. Soareses

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