1. Adjective form
Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
2. Adjective form
Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
3. Adjective form
Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
4. Adjective form
Afflictive; painful.
5. Adjective form
Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
6. Noun
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
7. Verb
To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
8. Verb
To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
9. Verb
To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
10. Verb
To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
11. Verb
To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
12. Verb
To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
13. Noun
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
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