Dire; distressing.
The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done this thing.
Sorely.
And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, […]
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-Eu...
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