sore
/soɹ/ noun C2- An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. · They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
- Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
Plural sores
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Farintosh, whom you helped in the hour of her sore need.
Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.
Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers’ Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place indeed.
Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them.
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