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sour
adjective
- having the sharp, acid taste of lemon juice, vinegar, green fruit, etc.
- made acid or rank by or as by fermentation: sour milk
- cross, bad-tempered, peevish, morose, etc.: a sour mood
- ill-disposed and bitter: sour toward former associates
- below what is usual or normal; poor; bad: his game has gone sour
- distasteful or unpleasant
- gratingly wrong or off pitch: a sour note
- excessively acid: said of soil
- tainted with sulfur compounds: said of gasoline, etc.
noun
- that which is sour; something sour
- ☆ a cocktail made with lemon or lime juice, sugar, and, usually, soda water: a whiskey sour
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to make or become sour: the milk will sour, soured on life
See sour in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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