sour

sours soured souring sourer sourest
Noun
1. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
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2. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
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3. the property of being acidic
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Verb
1. go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
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2. make sour or more sour
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Adjective
1. smelling of fermentation or staleness
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2. having a sharp biting taste
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3. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
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4. in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
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5. inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
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6. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
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