sour
/ˈsaʊ.ɚ/ verb C2- To make sour. · Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
- To become sour.
- To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To become disenchanted. · We broke up after our relationship soured.
- To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
Plural sour · He/she/it sours · Past soured · Past participle soured · -ing form souring
Verb forms
- Base form
- sour
- He/she/it
- sours
- Past
- soured
- Past participle
- soured
- -ing form
- souring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: “The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.”
The despotism and hatred of Liberalism which animated the Continental Governments had had the effect of driving to our shores a number of men who might have made excellent citizens were they not soured by the recollection of all that they had undergone.
Having sniffed the dead man’s lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him.
Would you want to be that white-lace girl and wear a sour look all your life, as if you’d been born turning up your nose at the world?
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