sour
/ˈsaʊ.ɚ/ adjetivo B1En español: avinagrado, acedado, agriado, acescente
- Tasting of acidity. · Lemons have a sour taste.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc. · Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
- Tasting or smelling rancid. · His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
- Hostile or unfriendly. · He gave me a sour look.
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil) · sour land· a sour marsh
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum) · sour gas smells like rotten eggs
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- Off-pitch, out of tune.
Comparativo sourer · Superlativo sourest
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: “The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.”
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?
Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
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