soured
soured is the simple past and past participle of sour.
Meaning of sour
Verb
sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
- To make sour.
- Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
- To become sour.
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems
- To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- To become disenchanted.
- We broke up after our relationship soured.
- To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil1832, Joseph Harrison, Sir Joseph Paxton, The Horticultural Register, page 396
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
Adjective
soured (comparative more soured, superlative most soured)
- That has become or been made sour.
Forms of soured
| comparative | more soured |
|---|---|
| superlative | most soured |
Words formed from soured
Phrases with soured
Questions about soured
- What does soured mean?
- Soured means that has become or been made sour.
- What is soured the simple past and past participle of?
- Soured is the simple past and past participle of sour.
- What part of speech is soured?
- Soured is an adjective.
Words near soured in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: soured (page history and authors); sour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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