Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To make sour.

    Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.

    säuern, versäuern, ansäuern

    make sour or more sour

  2. (intransitive)To become sour.

    säuern, versäuern, sauer vergären

    go sour or spoil

  3. (transitive)To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.

    verderben, beeinträchtigen

  4. (intransitive)To become disenchanted.

    We broke up after our relationship soured.

    sich verschlechtern, schiefgehen, mißlingen

  5. (transitive)To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

  7. (transitive)To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

Examples

194 sentences
  1. These grapes are so sour that I can't eat them.

    Цей виноград такий кислий, що я не можу його їсти. — ascolto

    ruЭтот виноград настолько кислый, что я не могу его есть. — Balamax

    deDie Trauben sind so sauer, dass ich sie nicht essen kann. — Wolf

  2. The milk went sour.

    Молоко скисло. — aandrusiak

    ruМолоко прокисло. — afyodor

  3. The milk tastes sour.

    Молоко на смак скисло. — deniko

    ruМолоко на вкус прокисло. — sharptoothed

    deDie Milch schmeckt sauer. — nemoli

  4. This apple tastes sour.

    Це яблуко кисле. — deniko

    ruЭто яблоко кислое. — heccele

    deDieser Apfel schmeckt sauer. — MUIRIEL

  5. The grapes are sour.

    Виноград кислий. — bicolino34

    ruВиноград кислый. — Hellerick

    deDie Trauben sind sauer. — Manfredo

Translations

6 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to make sour:
to become sour:
to make disenchanted:
to become disenchanted:

Origin

From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, fr

From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).

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Forms

sours, souring, soured, soured
Base formsour · to sour
3rd person singularsours
Present participlesouring
Past simplesoured
Past participlesoured

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysour
he, she, itsours

Past simpleLesson

all personssoured

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave soured
he, she, ithas soured

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sour

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words
Relatedsouring

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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