sore

adjective5

1. •
   (of a body part) hurting, and giving more pain when someone pushes on it or moves it

   • Her feet were sore from walking so far.
2. •
   Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

   • Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy. — 1671
3. •
   (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

   • Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
4. •
   Dire; distressing.

   • The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
5. •
   (no longer used) Criminal; wrong; evil.

   • […]and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. — 1599

adverb2

1. •
   Sorely.

   • And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, […] — 1885
2. •
   (no longer used) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

   • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. — 1879

noun4

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
3. •
   A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

   • Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly — 1596
4. •
   A young buck in its fourth year.

verb2

1. •
   To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
2. •
   To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of small off-road engine.