Definition of sour in English:

sour

adjective saʊəˈsaʊ(ə)r

1Having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar.
she sampled the wine and found it was sour
Example sentencesExamples
- One of them was really really bad, with a terrible vinegar smell that unclogged your sinuses and a sour taste to match.
- His eyes are gritty; there is a sour taste in his mouth, his heart is beating unpleasantly fast, and there is a roaring in his ears.
- Symptoms of heartburn include excessive burping, pain in the chest area, acid regurgitation, a sour taste, and bad breath.
- The lager and cigarettes had left a sour taste in his mouth though.
- Without getting into a lot of complicated chemistry, acids are substances that taste sour, such as vinegar or lemon juice.
- The fluffy filling combined with the sour taste was great.
- Mukheit is toxic and needs to be soaked in water for three days before it is edible; although it has a sour taste, it contains about a third of the calories of grain.
- Dry wines can cause unpleasant sour or even bitter tastes if served with desserts.
- Whatever they marinated the vegetables in wasn't pleasant at all - they all had a uniformly sour taste that made them almost inedible.
- And so I do a double taste test to see if it's the tonic water or the lemons that's making the drink taste really sour, since it surely can't be the gin.
- Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals.
- The result was a mediocre dessert which was saved from being unpleasantly dry, but which still left an unnecessarily sour taste in the mouth.
- The sour taste of a lemon cannot be distinguished from that of vinegar, yet when you proceed to open your nose and inhale, you can sense the specific flavor of lemon.
- Sometimes, stomach acid that backs up into the esophagus can leave a sour taste in your mouth - especially when you're lying down.
- I used to devour them, but now they leave such a sour taste in my mouth and the sourness irritates my insides.
- Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth.
- Lemons taste sour, but they make a sweet treatment for dry, rough heels, knees and elbows.
- A lot of the disinfectants were iodine based and would have a very sour bitter taste; birds, he believes, would not drink such a foul tasting substance.
- The fruit is about two to five centimetres long and acidic in nature with a sour taste.
- Low values of pH indicate high concentrations of acidity and the tart or sour taste that occurs in lemon juice, for example.
Synonyms
acid, acidy, acidic, acidulated, tart, bitter, sharp, acetic, vinegary, pungent, acrid, biting, stinging, burning, smarting, unpleasant, distasteful
North American acerb
technical acerbic
rare acidulous
1. 1.1 (of food, especially milk) having gone bad because of fermentation.
  the kitchen smelled of sour milk
  Example sentencesExamples
  He reeked of sour milk and unwashed filth and I felt my stomach lurch at the stench.
  Now, unless I get it washed, it's gonna stink of sour milk forever.
  Tanner pointed at my clothes which had a big white stain on them and smelled of sour milk.
  I didn't want Maria getting all mad at me in the morning cause the milk and cream were sour.
  This is the ultimate bachelor's pad, right down to the sour milk.
  Fermented wine was used as well as the unripe, sour juice acresta, which means acrid.
  The food should not be moistened because it turns rancid or sour.
  The grocery store always had a heavy odor of cheese and sour milk, and the dark linoleum floor near the dairy case was always wet and slippery.
  The fridge held a bottle of sour milk, half a bottle of sauce and a couple of bottles of beer.
  It's like sniffing sour milk to see if it's gone off: you just have to keep going back to make sure.
  Synonyms
  (gone) bad, (gone) off, turned, curdled, fermented, rancid
  old, tainted, high, rank, foul, fetid, overripe
  North American clabbered
2. 1.2 Having a rancid smell.
  her breath was always sour
  Example sentencesExamples
  The air was stagnant with the heavy, sour smell of beer.
  Nibble on a sprig of parsley after eating raw onions or garlic or whenever your breath smells sour.
  It smelled of sweat, sour and rancid, and the muzzle slid against my right temple.
  Aside from the faint, sour smell of blood from last night, nothing else was new.
  It was grayish and easy to break apart; feathery to the touch and had a sour smell to it.
  Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell.
  Lacto bacilli are heralded by the curdling of milk, other microbes simply by a sour smell to the liquid they're in.
  Payton could still smell the sour smoke coming from the severed wires.
  He answered and Elena could smell the sour stench of liquor on his breath.
  The prisoner had known of the warder's arrival by the sour aroma that preceded him, a melange of rancid sweat and cheap tobacco.
  Occasionally a sour smell from his doorway made me catch my breath.
  A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
  The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing.
  The inside of the bag containing the mixed candies smelled faintly of machine parts and some weird oily sour smell.
  The room filled with the sour smell of overheated electronics.
  A scent is no longer fresh if it smells sour or winy, gives off a distinctive alcohol aroma or no longer smells like it originally did.
  To reawaken memories of Miller's, the neighborhood delicatessen of my childhood, I need only the smell of sour pickles in a barrel.
  Her lab coat billowed around her thin frame, smelling sour as she paced back and forth.
  She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke.
  The sour smell of the old milk still lingered there.
2Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger.
he gave her a sour look
the meeting ended on a sour note
Example sentencesExamples
- Another American novel finished my recreational reading for the summer on something of a sour note.
- Lord George's voice had turned slightly sour.
- My mom shot him an extremely sour look.
- "Yeah, whatever, " I replied, suddenly in a sour mood.
- First off, if your dad's in sour mood, give him space.
- So as not to end this on an entirely sour note, there have been films worth looking forward to this season.
- She smiled, then her face turned very sour.
- The fee struck a sour note with some supporters, particularly given the strong tradition of free festival entertainment.
- It was on returning to the car that the only sour note of the day was struck, resoundingly.
- On a sour note, however, a small minority are intent on putting the future of the lake in jeopardy by their illegal actions.
- The book also ends on a sour note, which is to say it doesn't go quite as far as it should.
- The Easter long weekend may end on a sour note for some commuters who use public transit.
- On the home front, the year began so brightly for Waterford United but ended on a very sour note.
- I crossed my arms over my chest giving him an extremely sour look.
- Getting nervous that the year is about to end on a sour note, housebuilders make a last-minute bid to entice visitors to show homes and offer incentives.
- We'd survived two months without cross words, so it would've been a shame to end things on a sour note.
- After just getting out of detention, he was in a pretty sour mood.
- Celia made a sour face showing disgust towards Mrs. Larson.
- How could someone so sour look so lovely in sleep?
- Handshakes then turned to fisticuffs after the final hooter to end a miserable day on an even more sour note.
Synonyms
embittered, resentful, nasty, spiteful, sharp-tongued, irritable, irascible, peevish, fractious, fretful, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, petulant, pettish
complaining, querulous, bitter, moody, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, churlish, touchy, testy, tetchy, snappish, waspish, crusty, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric
informal snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, whingeing, whingy
British informal narky, ratty, eggy, stroppy, shirty
North American informal peckish, sorehead, soreheaded
Australian/New Zealand informal snaky
informal, dated miffy, waxy
3(of soil) deficient in lime and usually dank.
Example sentencesExamples
- Direct chopping and ensiling this wet corn can cause heavy seepage and a sour silage.
- Our soil is on the sour side and lays wet in spots, as the old-timers say.
4(of petroleum or natural gas) containing a relatively high proportion of sulphur.
Example sentencesExamples
- When a sour gas well is ignited, hydrogen sulphide is transformed into sulphur dioxide, which is less immediately dangerous, but still toxic.
- You become an activist when your dog is impounded, or a freeway is built past your house, or your child gets a disease because of pollution or sour gas.
- This risked individuals working on the platform being exposed to the toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide and excessive quantities of sour gas being allowed into the atmosphere.
- Work is underway to develop a comprehensive human health and air quality monitoring system and clinical practice guidelines for sour gas exposure.
- Even so, the dangers of sour gas are still visible.

noun saʊəˈsaʊ(ə)r

with modifier A drink made by mixing a spirit with lemon or lime juice.
a rum sour
Example sentencesExamples
- I learned how to make a wild berry mojito, a caipirinha, a pisco sour and a watermelon margarita.
- She took a drink of her vodka sour, then looked out over the club, her eyes widening.
- Suffice it to say, there are times when retro music and amaretto sours are just more important than tv.
- This is the place to spot the label-clad lovelies sipping their brandy sours, often accompanied by half of the racing drivers on the Formula One circuit.
- I'll be watching y'all with an amaretto sour in one hand and a remote control in the other.
- I sit drinking a pisco sour at a street café behind the cathedral watching people hurrying along the busy street.
- In Chile pisco is drunk as a liqueur after meals but a pisco sour, sometimes sold in bottled, pre-mixed form, can make a refreshing aperitif.
- The whiskey/amaretto sours are the best in the city.
- Cesar da Silva, the bar manager, mixes the best whisky sours in the world.
- I just loved the place, atmosphere & the whiskey sours.
- The waitress brought the whiskey sour and Kat took a long drink out of it.
- My favorite drinks are Malibu pineapple and Amaretto sours - I can't drink strong drinks.
- A locally famous drink is the anise seed based raki, and brandy sour is another favorite with the Turkish Cypriots.
- They are chilling out in Cyprus and will get back sometime this week once they've taken their fill of brandy sours.
- A favorite drink is pisco sour, in which pisco is served with lemon juice, sugar, beaten egg whites, and ice.

verb saʊəˈsaʊ(ə)r

1Make or become sour.
with object water soured with tamarind
Example sentencesExamples
- Aftershocks, rain and landslides are hampering aid efforts and souring drinking water, but survivors want more from authorities.
- This is how milk is soured; live yoghurt is beneficial despite being a dairy food, because fermentation has altered the character of the milk solids.
- Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily.
- Dairy products, especially soured milk, were reserved for children.
- As the figures show, whole cow's milk is definitely not for everyone, at least not unless the milk is soured or fermented.
- Smetana had to be made immediately before use, since it took only a few hours for the bacteria in the sour cream to sour the fresh cream completely.
- Tom recalls his mother ‘scalding’ the milk in hot weather - heating it to near boiling point to prevent souring.
- It's an uncomfortable proximity, compounded by Greenlaw's evocations of unbearable heat, of cream cakes souring as soon as they're baked, of days that stagnate under the oppressive sun and of nights spent twisting and turning.
- People eat a wide range of dairy products, such as tvorog, a kind of cottage cheese, and riazhenka, slightly soured milk.
- Casein is what makes up the curd that forms when milk is left to sour.
1. 1.1 Make or become unpleasant, acrimonious, or difficult.
  with object a dispute soured relations between the two countries
  no object many friendships have soured over borrowed money
  Example sentencesExamples
  Campbell was a dreadful choice because his controversial character had soured media relations before he'd even opened his mouth.
  But the 22-year-old defender confessed the final result soured any celebrations he had planned.
  The break-up was extremely acrimonious and relations between them further soured as he accused her of stealing his press from the film.
  The row threatens to sour relations between Prague and Washington.
  Relations soured after border disputes and clashes between troops followed by a war of words in which each accused the other of threatening security.
  Some feel the country's reputation for generosity has been spoiled and community sentiment permanently soured.
  Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city.
  Anti-social behaviour can sour every aspect of a person's life, spoiling the peace in what should be the ultimate sanctuary of their own home.
  He succeeded but only at the cost of further souring Anglo-German relations.
  The two were once friends, but their relations soured in recent years.
  Although economic and social ties between the island and the mainland have since grown, political relations have soured.
  Things soured after a six-year-old girl hurt herself when the dog on guard chased her in a bid to protect its family.
  The biggest problem is of course that it sours the investment climate.
  This can lead to a deep underlying hurt that can often sour any new relationships.
  It simply sours the atmosphere and creates hostility and distrust.
  Australia and New Zealand renew their fierce rivalry today with the fallout from one of the darkest moments in cricket still souring their relations.
  Even there on the dance floor with everyone copying our thirty-year-old spins and wring-the-dishrag moves, I couldn't stop sober thoughts like this from souring the moment.
  The spy plane crisis further soured relations.
  The bad news is that French antipathy towards him is so obvious that it sours the whole occasion.
  However, relations have soured dramatically in the last four weeks.
  Synonyms
  embitter, make bitter, make resentful, anger, exasperate, disillusion, disenchant, poison, envenom, disaffect, dissatisfy, frustrate, alienate
  spoil, mar, damage, harm, impair, be detrimental to, wreck, upset, hurt, worsen, poison, colour, blight, tarnish

Phrases

go (or turn) sour

Become less pleasant; turn out badly.
their relationship began to turn sour
Example sentencesExamples
- By January of this year, however, the whole deal was beginning to turn sour.
- If the deal goes sour, investors can walk away and the bank is left holding the property.
- But later, these relationships begin to turn sour.
- He says that within days of arriving he was kidnapped and threatened at gunpoint, after associates claimed they were owed money from a deal that turned sour.
- But five years ago everything began to turn sour after rogue tip operators moved in next door.
- But what initially seems to be the ultimate lucky escape turns sour when the survivors begin to die, one by one, in gruesome and unexpected ways.
- When the relationship went sour, the plaintiff asked for her fair share of the assets based on restitution and marriage.
- I would never stay in a relationship that turns sour, even if I think in the long term it might work out.
- But the deal starts to turn sour when a ruthless new sergeant arrives on the scene, determined to clean up the base.
- Then Brady picked up a leg injury when racing for possession and things began to turn sour for the men in blue.

sour grapes

Used to refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves.
government officials dismissed many of the complaints as sour grapes
Example sentencesExamples
- Let's keep the sour grapes to a minimum and recognise that perhaps this was a relationship which was getting too comfortable and that some of us were ready for a change anyway.
- The reality is she's articulate and she's composed, and apparently some people tonight have sour grapes.
- But for me to go on about it would be to criticise the referee, and it might sound like sour grapes.
- The rest of her scathing remarks are mostly sour grapes.
- The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes.
- There were no regrets, no complaints, not even a whiff of sour grapes.
- The views of the objectors are obviously tinged with disappointment but should not be dismissed as sour grapes.
- As you have always known, Canadians are sophisticated enough politically to see through the sour grapes of criticism.
- Can anyone really believe that review is anything but sour grapes?
- However those behind the enterprise insist that it's just a case of sour grapes.

Derivatives

sourish

adjective ˈsaʊərɪʃˈsaʊrɪʃ

You can substitute the redcurrants with some other sourish fruits available.
Example sentencesExamples
- White rice will come out greenish and have a sourish aftertaste; black rice should produce a juicy tapé.
- She mentioned that she remembered eating the sourish fruit, an orange olive-shaped drupe, as a child.
- The sourish fruit concoction is usually eaten with rice and makes an appetising salad.
- The fruit is globose, red, sourish, not bitter.

sourly

adverb ˈsaʊəliˈsaʊrli

Some are gushingly optimistic and others sourly skeptical, but most acknowledge that it is exciting to be an Indian today.
Example sentencesExamples
- I smiled sourly before stepping aside and letting him in.
- Laila grimaced as she bumped into a wall, grumbling sourly as she steadied herself against it before pushing off and gliding down the corridor.
- A few will linger sourly on the back benches, living with their grudges while adding to their parliamentary pensions.
- Dumas's novel mixes operatic themes with the odd sourly realistic vignette.

sourness

noun ˈsaʊənəsˈsaʊrnəs

For instance, a little sourness from lime or lemon juice in a stir-fry will emphasise saltiness and reduce the amount of salt required.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sweetened bitterness, such as sugared espresso, for example, satiates the appetite, while savoury sourness, such as hot-and-sour soup, can stimulate hunger and highlight texture.
- In traditional Chinese medicine, the pulp and juice of the pomelo, which taste sweet with a hint of sourness, are good for the throat, stomach and spleen.
- Earlier, astringency had been considered as one of the primary taste sensations, like sweetness, sourness, and particularly bitterness with which it has often been confused.
- It is essential to use the best-quality ingredients for this starter, as the bitterness of a good extra-virgin olive oil and the sourness of the lemon juice bring out the sweet flavour in the fennel.

Origin

Old English sūr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuur and German sauer.

Rhymes

bower, cower, devour, dower, embower, empower, endower, flour, flower, gaur, Glendower, glower, hour, lour, lower, our, plougher (US plower), power, scour, shower, Stour, sweet-and-sour, tower

Definition of sour in US English:

sour

adjectiveˈsou(ə)rˈsaʊ(ə)r

1Having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar.
she sampled the wine and found it was sour
Example sentencesExamples
- Without getting into a lot of complicated chemistry, acids are substances that taste sour, such as vinegar or lemon juice.
- The fruit is about two to five centimetres long and acidic in nature with a sour taste.
- Low values of pH indicate high concentrations of acidity and the tart or sour taste that occurs in lemon juice, for example.
- And so I do a double taste test to see if it's the tonic water or the lemons that's making the drink taste really sour, since it surely can't be the gin.
- The result was a mediocre dessert which was saved from being unpleasantly dry, but which still left an unnecessarily sour taste in the mouth.
- The sour taste of a lemon cannot be distinguished from that of vinegar, yet when you proceed to open your nose and inhale, you can sense the specific flavor of lemon.
- One of them was really really bad, with a terrible vinegar smell that unclogged your sinuses and a sour taste to match.
- The fluffy filling combined with the sour taste was great.
- Lemons taste sour, but they make a sweet treatment for dry, rough heels, knees and elbows.
- I used to devour them, but now they leave such a sour taste in my mouth and the sourness irritates my insides.
- Mukheit is toxic and needs to be soaked in water for three days before it is edible; although it has a sour taste, it contains about a third of the calories of grain.
- Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals.
- Symptoms of heartburn include excessive burping, pain in the chest area, acid regurgitation, a sour taste, and bad breath.
- A lot of the disinfectants were iodine based and would have a very sour bitter taste; birds, he believes, would not drink such a foul tasting substance.
- Sometimes, stomach acid that backs up into the esophagus can leave a sour taste in your mouth - especially when you're lying down.
- The lager and cigarettes had left a sour taste in his mouth though.
- Dry wines can cause unpleasant sour or even bitter tastes if served with desserts.
- His eyes are gritty; there is a sour taste in his mouth, his heart is beating unpleasantly fast, and there is a roaring in his ears.
- Whatever they marinated the vegetables in wasn't pleasant at all - they all had a uniformly sour taste that made them almost inedible.
- Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth.
Synonyms
acid, acidy, acidic, acidulated, tart, bitter, sharp, acetic, vinegary, pungent, acrid, biting, stinging, burning, smarting, unpleasant, distasteful
1. 1.1 (of food, especially milk) spoiled because of fermentation.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tanner pointed at my clothes which had a big white stain on them and smelled of sour milk.
  The fridge held a bottle of sour milk, half a bottle of sauce and a couple of bottles of beer.
  It's like sniffing sour milk to see if it's gone off: you just have to keep going back to make sure.
  This is the ultimate bachelor's pad, right down to the sour milk.
  Fermented wine was used as well as the unripe, sour juice acresta, which means acrid.
  I didn't want Maria getting all mad at me in the morning cause the milk and cream were sour.
  The grocery store always had a heavy odor of cheese and sour milk, and the dark linoleum floor near the dairy case was always wet and slippery.
  The food should not be moistened because it turns rancid or sour.
  He reeked of sour milk and unwashed filth and I felt my stomach lurch at the stench.
  Now, unless I get it washed, it's gonna stink of sour milk forever.
  Synonyms
  bad, gone bad, off, gone off, turned, curdled, fermented, rancid
2. 1.2 Having a rancid smell.
  her breath was always sour
  Example sentencesExamples
  To reawaken memories of Miller's, the neighborhood delicatessen of my childhood, I need only the smell of sour pickles in a barrel.
  Her lab coat billowed around her thin frame, smelling sour as she paced back and forth.
  Lacto bacilli are heralded by the curdling of milk, other microbes simply by a sour smell to the liquid they're in.
  The prisoner had known of the warder's arrival by the sour aroma that preceded him, a melange of rancid sweat and cheap tobacco.
  It smelled of sweat, sour and rancid, and the muzzle slid against my right temple.
  It was grayish and easy to break apart; feathery to the touch and had a sour smell to it.
  Occasionally a sour smell from his doorway made me catch my breath.
  Payton could still smell the sour smoke coming from the severed wires.
  She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke.
  The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing.
  A scent is no longer fresh if it smells sour or winy, gives off a distinctive alcohol aroma or no longer smells like it originally did.
  He answered and Elena could smell the sour stench of liquor on his breath.
  A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
  The room filled with the sour smell of overheated electronics.
  Aside from the faint, sour smell of blood from last night, nothing else was new.
  The inside of the bag containing the mixed candies smelled faintly of machine parts and some weird oily sour smell.
  Nibble on a sprig of parsley after eating raw onions or garlic or whenever your breath smells sour.
  Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell.
  The air was stagnant with the heavy, sour smell of beer.
  The sour smell of the old milk still lingered there.
2Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger.
she was quite a different woman from the sour, bored creature I had known
Example sentencesExamples
- The fee struck a sour note with some supporters, particularly given the strong tradition of free festival entertainment.
- Lord George's voice had turned slightly sour.
- On a sour note, however, a small minority are intent on putting the future of the lake in jeopardy by their illegal actions.
- So as not to end this on an entirely sour note, there have been films worth looking forward to this season.
- How could someone so sour look so lovely in sleep?
- Another American novel finished my recreational reading for the summer on something of a sour note.
- She smiled, then her face turned very sour.
- First off, if your dad's in sour mood, give him space.
- The Easter long weekend may end on a sour note for some commuters who use public transit.
- Getting nervous that the year is about to end on a sour note, housebuilders make a last-minute bid to entice visitors to show homes and offer incentives.
- My mom shot him an extremely sour look.
- We'd survived two months without cross words, so it would've been a shame to end things on a sour note.
- On the home front, the year began so brightly for Waterford United but ended on a very sour note.
- It was on returning to the car that the only sour note of the day was struck, resoundingly.
- "Yeah, whatever, " I replied, suddenly in a sour mood.
- Handshakes then turned to fisticuffs after the final hooter to end a miserable day on an even more sour note.
- Celia made a sour face showing disgust towards Mrs. Larson.
- After just getting out of detention, he was in a pretty sour mood.
- I crossed my arms over my chest giving him an extremely sour look.
- The book also ends on a sour note, which is to say it doesn't go quite as far as it should.
Synonyms
embittered, resentful, nasty, spiteful, sharp-tongued, irritable, irascible, peevish, fractious, fretful, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, petulant, pettish
3(of soil) deficient in lime and usually dank.
Example sentencesExamples
- Direct chopping and ensiling this wet corn can cause heavy seepage and a sour silage.
- Our soil is on the sour side and lays wet in spots, as the old-timers say.
4(of petroleum or natural gas) containing a relatively high sulfur content.
Example sentencesExamples
- You become an activist when your dog is impounded, or a freeway is built past your house, or your child gets a disease because of pollution or sour gas.
- Work is underway to develop a comprehensive human health and air quality monitoring system and clinical practice guidelines for sour gas exposure.
- Even so, the dangers of sour gas are still visible.
- When a sour gas well is ignited, hydrogen sulphide is transformed into sulphur dioxide, which is less immediately dangerous, but still toxic.
- This risked individuals working on the platform being exposed to the toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide and excessive quantities of sour gas being allowed into the atmosphere.

nounˈsou(ə)rˈsaʊ(ə)r

with modifier A drink made by mixing an alcoholic beverage with lemon juice or lime juice.
a rum sour
Example sentencesExamples
- I sit drinking a pisco sour at a street café behind the cathedral watching people hurrying along the busy street.
- Suffice it to say, there are times when retro music and amaretto sours are just more important than tv.
- The whiskey/amaretto sours are the best in the city.
- Cesar da Silva, the bar manager, mixes the best whisky sours in the world.
- I just loved the place, atmosphere & the whiskey sours.
- They are chilling out in Cyprus and will get back sometime this week once they've taken their fill of brandy sours.
- My favorite drinks are Malibu pineapple and Amaretto sours - I can't drink strong drinks.
- A locally famous drink is the anise seed based raki, and brandy sour is another favorite with the Turkish Cypriots.
- This is the place to spot the label-clad lovelies sipping their brandy sours, often accompanied by half of the racing drivers on the Formula One circuit.
- A favorite drink is pisco sour, in which pisco is served with lemon juice, sugar, beaten egg whites, and ice.
- I learned how to make a wild berry mojito, a caipirinha, a pisco sour and a watermelon margarita.
- In Chile pisco is drunk as a liqueur after meals but a pisco sour, sometimes sold in bottled, pre-mixed form, can make a refreshing aperitif.
- The waitress brought the whiskey sour and Kat took a long drink out of it.
- She took a drink of her vodka sour, then looked out over the club, her eyes widening.
- I'll be watching y'all with an amaretto sour in one hand and a remote control in the other.

verbˈsou(ə)rˈsaʊ(ə)r

1Make or become sour.
with object water soured with tamarind
no object a bowl of milk was souring in the sun
Example sentencesExamples
- Aftershocks, rain and landslides are hampering aid efforts and souring drinking water, but survivors want more from authorities.
- As the figures show, whole cow's milk is definitely not for everyone, at least not unless the milk is soured or fermented.
- This is how milk is soured; live yoghurt is beneficial despite being a dairy food, because fermentation has altered the character of the milk solids.
- Tom recalls his mother ‘scalding’ the milk in hot weather - heating it to near boiling point to prevent souring.
- Casein is what makes up the curd that forms when milk is left to sour.
- It's an uncomfortable proximity, compounded by Greenlaw's evocations of unbearable heat, of cream cakes souring as soon as they're baked, of days that stagnate under the oppressive sun and of nights spent twisting and turning.
- Dairy products, especially soured milk, were reserved for children.
- People eat a wide range of dairy products, such as tvorog, a kind of cottage cheese, and riazhenka, slightly soured milk.
- Smetana had to be made immediately before use, since it took only a few hours for the bacteria in the sour cream to sour the fresh cream completely.
- Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily.
1. 1.1 Make or become unpleasant, acrimonious, or difficult.
  with object a dispute soured relations between the two countries for over a year
  no object many friendships have soured over borrowed money
  Example sentencesExamples
  He succeeded but only at the cost of further souring Anglo-German relations.
  The two were once friends, but their relations soured in recent years.
  The row threatens to sour relations between Prague and Washington.
  Relations soured after border disputes and clashes between troops followed by a war of words in which each accused the other of threatening security.
  Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city.
  Things soured after a six-year-old girl hurt herself when the dog on guard chased her in a bid to protect its family.
  The break-up was extremely acrimonious and relations between them further soured as he accused her of stealing his press from the film.
  It simply sours the atmosphere and creates hostility and distrust.
  Campbell was a dreadful choice because his controversial character had soured media relations before he'd even opened his mouth.
  Australia and New Zealand renew their fierce rivalry today with the fallout from one of the darkest moments in cricket still souring their relations.
  The biggest problem is of course that it sours the investment climate.
  The spy plane crisis further soured relations.
  Although economic and social ties between the island and the mainland have since grown, political relations have soured.
  But the 22-year-old defender confessed the final result soured any celebrations he had planned.
  Some feel the country's reputation for generosity has been spoiled and community sentiment permanently soured.
  However, relations have soured dramatically in the last four weeks.
  Anti-social behaviour can sour every aspect of a person's life, spoiling the peace in what should be the ultimate sanctuary of their own home.
  The bad news is that French antipathy towards him is so obvious that it sours the whole occasion.
  This can lead to a deep underlying hurt that can often sour any new relationships.
  Even there on the dance floor with everyone copying our thirty-year-old spins and wring-the-dishrag moves, I couldn't stop sober thoughts like this from souring the moment.
  Synonyms
  embitter, make bitter, make resentful, anger, exasperate, disillusion, disenchant, poison, envenom, disaffect, dissatisfy, frustrate, alienate
  spoil, mar, damage, harm, impair, be detrimental to, wreck, upset, hurt, worsen, poison, colour, blight, tarnish

Phrases

go (or turn) sour

Become less pleasant or attractive; turn out badly.
the case concerns a property deal that turned sour
Example sentencesExamples
- But later, these relationships begin to turn sour.
- By January of this year, however, the whole deal was beginning to turn sour.
- Then Brady picked up a leg injury when racing for possession and things began to turn sour for the men in blue.
- But what initially seems to be the ultimate lucky escape turns sour when the survivors begin to die, one by one, in gruesome and unexpected ways.
- When the relationship went sour, the plaintiff asked for her fair share of the assets based on restitution and marriage.
- He says that within days of arriving he was kidnapped and threatened at gunpoint, after associates claimed they were owed money from a deal that turned sour.
- But five years ago everything began to turn sour after rogue tip operators moved in next door.
- I would never stay in a relationship that turns sour, even if I think in the long term it might work out.
- But the deal starts to turn sour when a ruthless new sergeant arrives on the scene, determined to clean up the base.
- If the deal goes sour, investors can walk away and the bank is left holding the property.

sour grapes

Used to refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves.
government officials dismissed many of the complaints as sour grapes
Example sentencesExamples
- Let's keep the sour grapes to a minimum and recognise that perhaps this was a relationship which was getting too comfortable and that some of us were ready for a change anyway.
- As you have always known, Canadians are sophisticated enough politically to see through the sour grapes of criticism.
- The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes.
- The rest of her scathing remarks are mostly sour grapes.
- The reality is she's articulate and she's composed, and apparently some people tonight have sour grapes.
- The views of the objectors are obviously tinged with disappointment but should not be dismissed as sour grapes.
- Can anyone really believe that review is anything but sour grapes?
- However those behind the enterprise insist that it's just a case of sour grapes.
- But for me to go on about it would be to criticise the referee, and it might sound like sour grapes.
- There were no regrets, no complaints, not even a whiff of sour grapes.

Origin

Old English sūr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuur and German sauer.

单词	sour
释义	Definition of sour in English: sour adjective saʊəˈsaʊ(ə)r 1Having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar. she sampled the wine and found it was sour Example sentencesExamples One of them was really really bad, with a terrible vinegar smell that unclogged your sinuses and a sour taste to match. His eyes are gritty; there is a sour taste in his mouth, his heart is beating unpleasantly fast, and there is a roaring in his ears. Symptoms of heartburn include excessive burping, pain in the chest area, acid regurgitation, a sour taste, and bad breath. The lager and cigarettes had left a sour taste in his mouth though. Without getting into a lot of complicated chemistry, acids are substances that taste sour, such as vinegar or lemon juice. The fluffy filling combined with the sour taste was great. Mukheit is toxic and needs to be soaked in water for three days before it is edible; although it has a sour taste, it contains about a third of the calories of grain. Dry wines can cause unpleasant sour or even bitter tastes if served with desserts. Whatever they marinated the vegetables in wasn't pleasant at all - they all had a uniformly sour taste that made them almost inedible. And so I do a double taste test to see if it's the tonic water or the lemons that's making the drink taste really sour, since it surely can't be the gin. Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals. The result was a mediocre dessert which was saved from being unpleasantly dry, but which still left an unnecessarily sour taste in the mouth. The sour taste of a lemon cannot be distinguished from that of vinegar, yet when you proceed to open your nose and inhale, you can sense the specific flavor of lemon. Sometimes, stomach acid that backs up into the esophagus can leave a sour taste in your mouth - especially when you're lying down. I used to devour them, but now they leave such a sour taste in my mouth and the sourness irritates my insides. Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth. Lemons taste sour, but they make a sweet treatment for dry, rough heels, knees and elbows. A lot of the disinfectants were iodine based and would have a very sour bitter taste; birds, he believes, would not drink such a foul tasting substance. The fruit is about two to five centimetres long and acidic in nature with a sour taste. Low values of pH indicate high concentrations of acidity and the tart or sour taste that occurs in lemon juice, for example. Synonyms acid, acidy, acidic, acidulated, tart, bitter, sharp, acetic, vinegary, pungent, acrid, biting, stinging, burning, smarting, unpleasant, distasteful North American acerb technical acerbic rare acidulous 1.1 (of food, especially milk) having gone bad because of fermentation. the kitchen smelled of sour milk Example sentencesExamples He reeked of sour milk and unwashed filth and I felt my stomach lurch at the stench. Now, unless I get it washed, it's gonna stink of sour milk forever. Tanner pointed at my clothes which had a big white stain on them and smelled of sour milk. I didn't want Maria getting all mad at me in the morning cause the milk and cream were sour. This is the ultimate bachelor's pad, right down to the sour milk. Fermented wine was used as well as the unripe, sour juice acresta, which means acrid. The food should not be moistened because it turns rancid or sour. The grocery store always had a heavy odor of cheese and sour milk, and the dark linoleum floor near the dairy case was always wet and slippery. The fridge held a bottle of sour milk, half a bottle of sauce and a couple of bottles of beer. It's like sniffing sour milk to see if it's gone off: you just have to keep going back to make sure. Synonyms (gone) bad, (gone) off, turned, curdled, fermented, rancid old, tainted, high, rank, foul, fetid, overripe North American clabbered 1.2 Having a rancid smell. her breath was always sour Example sentencesExamples The air was stagnant with the heavy, sour smell of beer. Nibble on a sprig of parsley after eating raw onions or garlic or whenever your breath smells sour. It smelled of sweat, sour and rancid, and the muzzle slid against my right temple. Aside from the faint, sour smell of blood from last night, nothing else was new. It was grayish and easy to break apart; feathery to the touch and had a sour smell to it. Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell. Lacto bacilli are heralded by the curdling of milk, other microbes simply by a sour smell to the liquid they're in. Payton could still smell the sour smoke coming from the severed wires. He answered and Elena could smell the sour stench of liquor on his breath. The prisoner had known of the warder's arrival by the sour aroma that preceded him, a melange of rancid sweat and cheap tobacco. Occasionally a sour smell from his doorway made me catch my breath. A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden. The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing. The inside of the bag containing the mixed candies smelled faintly of machine parts and some weird oily sour smell. The room filled with the sour smell of overheated electronics. A scent is no longer fresh if it smells sour or winy, gives off a distinctive alcohol aroma or no longer smells like it originally did. To reawaken memories of Miller's, the neighborhood delicatessen of my childhood, I need only the smell of sour pickles in a barrel. Her lab coat billowed around her thin frame, smelling sour as she paced back and forth. She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke. The sour smell of the old milk still lingered there. 2Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger. he gave her a sour look the meeting ended on a sour note Example sentencesExamples Another American novel finished my recreational reading for the summer on something of a sour note. Lord George's voice had turned slightly sour. My mom shot him an extremely sour look. "Yeah, whatever, " I replied, suddenly in a sour mood. First off, if your dad's in sour mood, give him space. So as not to end this on an entirely sour note, there have been films worth looking forward to this season. She smiled, then her face turned very sour. The fee struck a sour note with some supporters, particularly given the strong tradition of free festival entertainment. It was on returning to the car that the only sour note of the day was struck, resoundingly. On a sour note, however, a small minority are intent on putting the future of the lake in jeopardy by their illegal actions. The book also ends on a sour note, which is to say it doesn't go quite as far as it should. The Easter long weekend may end on a sour note for some commuters who use public transit. On the home front, the year began so brightly for Waterford United but ended on a very sour note. I crossed my arms over my chest giving him an extremely sour look. Getting nervous that the year is about to end on a sour note, housebuilders make a last-minute bid to entice visitors to show homes and offer incentives. We'd survived two months without cross words, so it would've been a shame to end things on a sour note. After just getting out of detention, he was in a pretty sour mood. Celia made a sour face showing disgust towards Mrs. Larson. How could someone so sour look so lovely in sleep? Handshakes then turned to fisticuffs after the final hooter to end a miserable day on an even more sour note. Synonyms embittered, resentful, nasty, spiteful, sharp-tongued, irritable, irascible, peevish, fractious, fretful, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, petulant, pettish complaining, querulous, bitter, moody, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, churlish, touchy, testy, tetchy, snappish, waspish, crusty, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric informal snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, whingeing, whingy British informal narky, ratty, eggy, stroppy, shirty North American informal peckish, sorehead, soreheaded Australian/New Zealand informal snaky informal, dated miffy, waxy 3(of soil) deficient in lime and usually dank. Example sentencesExamples Direct chopping and ensiling this wet corn can cause heavy seepage and a sour silage. Our soil is on the sour side and lays wet in spots, as the old-timers say. 4(of petroleum or natural gas) containing a relatively high proportion of sulphur. Example sentencesExamples When a sour gas well is ignited, hydrogen sulphide is transformed into sulphur dioxide, which is less immediately dangerous, but still toxic. You become an activist when your dog is impounded, or a freeway is built past your house, or your child gets a disease because of pollution or sour gas. This risked individuals working on the platform being exposed to the toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide and excessive quantities of sour gas being allowed into the atmosphere. Work is underway to develop a comprehensive human health and air quality monitoring system and clinical practice guidelines for sour gas exposure. Even so, the dangers of sour gas are still visible. noun saʊəˈsaʊ(ə)r with modifier A drink made by mixing a spirit with lemon or lime juice. a rum sour Example sentencesExamples I learned how to make a wild berry mojito, a caipirinha, a pisco sour and a watermelon margarita. She took a drink of her vodka sour, then looked out over the club, her eyes widening. Suffice it to say, there are times when retro music and amaretto sours are just more important than tv. This is the place to spot the label-clad lovelies sipping their brandy sours, often accompanied by half of the racing drivers on the Formula One circuit. I'll be watching y'all with an amaretto sour in one hand and a remote control in the other. I sit drinking a pisco sour at a street café behind the cathedral watching people hurrying along the busy street. In Chile pisco is drunk as a liqueur after meals but a pisco sour, sometimes sold in bottled, pre-mixed form, can make a refreshing aperitif. The whiskey/amaretto sours are the best in the city. Cesar da Silva, the bar manager, mixes the best whisky sours in the world. I just loved the place, atmosphere & the whiskey sours. The waitress brought the whiskey sour and Kat took a long drink out of it. My favorite drinks are Malibu pineapple and Amaretto sours - I can't drink strong drinks. A locally famous drink is the anise seed based raki, and brandy sour is another favorite with the Turkish Cypriots. They are chilling out in Cyprus and will get back sometime this week once they've taken their fill of brandy sours. A favorite drink is pisco sour, in which pisco is served with lemon juice, sugar, beaten egg whites, and ice. verb saʊəˈsaʊ(ə)r 1Make or become sour. with object water soured with tamarind Example sentencesExamples Aftershocks, rain and landslides are hampering aid efforts and souring drinking water, but survivors want more from authorities. This is how milk is soured; live yoghurt is beneficial despite being a dairy food, because fermentation has altered the character of the milk solids. Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily. Dairy products, especially soured milk, were reserved for children. As the figures show, whole cow's milk is definitely not for everyone, at least not unless the milk is soured or fermented. Smetana had to be made immediately before use, since it took only a few hours for the bacteria in the sour cream to sour the fresh cream completely. Tom recalls his mother ‘scalding’ the milk in hot weather - heating it to near boiling point to prevent souring. It's an uncomfortable proximity, compounded by Greenlaw's evocations of unbearable heat, of cream cakes souring as soon as they're baked, of days that stagnate under the oppressive sun and of nights spent twisting and turning. People eat a wide range of dairy products, such as tvorog, a kind of cottage cheese, and riazhenka, slightly soured milk. Casein is what makes up the curd that forms when milk is left to sour. 1.1 Make or become unpleasant, acrimonious, or difficult. with object a dispute soured relations between the two countries no object many friendships have soured over borrowed money Example sentencesExamples Campbell was a dreadful choice because his controversial character had soured media relations before he'd even opened his mouth. But the 22-year-old defender confessed the final result soured any celebrations he had planned. The break-up was extremely acrimonious and relations between them further soured as he accused her of stealing his press from the film. The row threatens to sour relations between Prague and Washington. Relations soured after border disputes and clashes between troops followed by a war of words in which each accused the other of threatening security. Some feel the country's reputation for generosity has been spoiled and community sentiment permanently soured. Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city. Anti-social behaviour can sour every aspect of a person's life, spoiling the peace in what should be the ultimate sanctuary of their own home. He succeeded but only at the cost of further souring Anglo-German relations. The two were once friends, but their relations soured in recent years. Although economic and social ties between the island and the mainland have since grown, political relations have soured. Things soured after a six-year-old girl hurt herself when the dog on guard chased her in a bid to protect its family. The biggest problem is of course that it sours the investment climate. This can lead to a deep underlying hurt that can often sour any new relationships. It simply sours the atmosphere and creates hostility and distrust. Australia and New Zealand renew their fierce rivalry today with the fallout from one of the darkest moments in cricket still souring their relations. Even there on the dance floor with everyone copying our thirty-year-old spins and wring-the-dishrag moves, I couldn't stop sober thoughts like this from souring the moment. The spy plane crisis further soured relations. The bad news is that French antipathy towards him is so obvious that it sours the whole occasion. However, relations have soured dramatically in the last four weeks. Synonyms embitter, make bitter, make resentful, anger, exasperate, disillusion, disenchant, poison, envenom, disaffect, dissatisfy, frustrate, alienate spoil, mar, damage, harm, impair, be detrimental to, wreck, upset, hurt, worsen, poison, colour, blight, tarnish Phrases go (or turn) sour Become less pleasant; turn out badly. their relationship began to turn sour Example sentencesExamples By January of this year, however, the whole deal was beginning to turn sour. If the deal goes sour, investors can walk away and the bank is left holding the property. But later, these relationships begin to turn sour. He says that within days of arriving he was kidnapped and threatened at gunpoint, after associates claimed they were owed money from a deal that turned sour. But five years ago everything began to turn sour after rogue tip operators moved in next door. But what initially seems to be the ultimate lucky escape turns sour when the survivors begin to die, one by one, in gruesome and unexpected ways. When the relationship went sour, the plaintiff asked for her fair share of the assets based on restitution and marriage. I would never stay in a relationship that turns sour, even if I think in the long term it might work out. But the deal starts to turn sour when a ruthless new sergeant arrives on the scene, determined to clean up the base. Then Brady picked up a leg injury when racing for possession and things began to turn sour for the men in blue. sour grapes Used to refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves. government officials dismissed many of the complaints as sour grapes Example sentencesExamples Let's keep the sour grapes to a minimum and recognise that perhaps this was a relationship which was getting too comfortable and that some of us were ready for a change anyway. The reality is she's articulate and she's composed, and apparently some people tonight have sour grapes. But for me to go on about it would be to criticise the referee, and it might sound like sour grapes. The rest of her scathing remarks are mostly sour grapes. The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes. There were no regrets, no complaints, not even a whiff of sour grapes. The views of the objectors are obviously tinged with disappointment but should not be dismissed as sour grapes. As you have always known, Canadians are sophisticated enough politically to see through the sour grapes of criticism. Can anyone really believe that review is anything but sour grapes? However those behind the enterprise insist that it's just a case of sour grapes. Derivatives sourish adjective ˈsaʊərɪʃˈsaʊrɪʃ You can substitute the redcurrants with some other sourish fruits available. Example sentencesExamples White rice will come out greenish and have a sourish aftertaste; black rice should produce a juicy tapé. She mentioned that she remembered eating the sourish fruit, an orange olive-shaped drupe, as a child. The sourish fruit concoction is usually eaten with rice and makes an appetising salad. The fruit is globose, red, sourish, not bitter. sourly adverb ˈsaʊəliˈsaʊrli Some are gushingly optimistic and others sourly skeptical, but most acknowledge that it is exciting to be an Indian today. Example sentencesExamples I smiled sourly before stepping aside and letting him in. Laila grimaced as she bumped into a wall, grumbling sourly as she steadied herself against it before pushing off and gliding down the corridor. A few will linger sourly on the back benches, living with their grudges while adding to their parliamentary pensions. Dumas's novel mixes operatic themes with the odd sourly realistic vignette. sourness noun ˈsaʊənəsˈsaʊrnəs For instance, a little sourness from lime or lemon juice in a stir-fry will emphasise saltiness and reduce the amount of salt required. Example sentencesExamples Sweetened bitterness, such as sugared espresso, for example, satiates the appetite, while savoury sourness, such as hot-and-sour soup, can stimulate hunger and highlight texture. In traditional Chinese medicine, the pulp and juice of the pomelo, which taste sweet with a hint of sourness, are good for the throat, stomach and spleen. Earlier, astringency had been considered as one of the primary taste sensations, like sweetness, sourness, and particularly bitterness with which it has often been confused. It is essential to use the best-quality ingredients for this starter, as the bitterness of a good extra-virgin olive oil and the sourness of the lemon juice bring out the sweet flavour in the fennel. Origin Old English sūr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuur and German sauer. Rhymes bower, cower, devour, dower, embower, empower, endower, flour, flower, gaur, Glendower, glower, hour, lour, lower, our, plougher (US plower), power, scour, shower, Stour, sweet-and-sour, tower adj.1 phr. Definition of sour in US English: sour adjectiveˈsou(ə)rˈsaʊ(ə)r 1Having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar. she sampled the wine and found it was sour Example sentencesExamples Without getting into a lot of complicated chemistry, acids are substances that taste sour, such as vinegar or lemon juice. The fruit is about two to five centimetres long and acidic in nature with a sour taste. Low values of pH indicate high concentrations of acidity and the tart or sour taste that occurs in lemon juice, for example. And so I do a double taste test to see if it's the tonic water or the lemons that's making the drink taste really sour, since it surely can't be the gin. The result was a mediocre dessert which was saved from being unpleasantly dry, but which still left an unnecessarily sour taste in the mouth. The sour taste of a lemon cannot be distinguished from that of vinegar, yet when you proceed to open your nose and inhale, you can sense the specific flavor of lemon. One of them was really really bad, with a terrible vinegar smell that unclogged your sinuses and a sour taste to match. The fluffy filling combined with the sour taste was great. Lemons taste sour, but they make a sweet treatment for dry, rough heels, knees and elbows. I used to devour them, but now they leave such a sour taste in my mouth and the sourness irritates my insides. Mukheit is toxic and needs to be soaked in water for three days before it is edible; although it has a sour taste, it contains about a third of the calories of grain. Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals. Symptoms of heartburn include excessive burping, pain in the chest area, acid regurgitation, a sour taste, and bad breath. A lot of the disinfectants were iodine based and would have a very sour bitter taste; birds, he believes, would not drink such a foul tasting substance. Sometimes, stomach acid that backs up into the esophagus can leave a sour taste in your mouth - especially when you're lying down. The lager and cigarettes had left a sour taste in his mouth though. Dry wines can cause unpleasant sour or even bitter tastes if served with desserts. His eyes are gritty; there is a sour taste in his mouth, his heart is beating unpleasantly fast, and there is a roaring in his ears. Whatever they marinated the vegetables in wasn't pleasant at all - they all had a uniformly sour taste that made them almost inedible. Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth. Synonyms acid, acidy, acidic, acidulated, tart, bitter, sharp, acetic, vinegary, pungent, acrid, biting, stinging, burning, smarting, unpleasant, distasteful 1.1 (of food, especially milk) spoiled because of fermentation. Example sentencesExamples Tanner pointed at my clothes which had a big white stain on them and smelled of sour milk. The fridge held a bottle of sour milk, half a bottle of sauce and a couple of bottles of beer. It's like sniffing sour milk to see if it's gone off: you just have to keep going back to make sure. This is the ultimate bachelor's pad, right down to the sour milk. Fermented wine was used as well as the unripe, sour juice acresta, which means acrid. I didn't want Maria getting all mad at me in the morning cause the milk and cream were sour. The grocery store always had a heavy odor of cheese and sour milk, and the dark linoleum floor near the dairy case was always wet and slippery. The food should not be moistened because it turns rancid or sour. He reeked of sour milk and unwashed filth and I felt my stomach lurch at the stench. Now, unless I get it washed, it's gonna stink of sour milk forever. Synonyms bad, gone bad, off, gone off, turned, curdled, fermented, rancid 1.2 Having a rancid smell. her breath was always sour Example sentencesExamples To reawaken memories of Miller's, the neighborhood delicatessen of my childhood, I need only the smell of sour pickles in a barrel. Her lab coat billowed around her thin frame, smelling sour as she paced back and forth. Lacto bacilli are heralded by the curdling of milk, other microbes simply by a sour smell to the liquid they're in. The prisoner had known of the warder's arrival by the sour aroma that preceded him, a melange of rancid sweat and cheap tobacco. It smelled of sweat, sour and rancid, and the muzzle slid against my right temple. It was grayish and easy to break apart; feathery to the touch and had a sour smell to it. Occasionally a sour smell from his doorway made me catch my breath. Payton could still smell the sour smoke coming from the severed wires. She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke. The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing. A scent is no longer fresh if it smells sour or winy, gives off a distinctive alcohol aroma or no longer smells like it originally did. He answered and Elena could smell the sour stench of liquor on his breath. A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden. The room filled with the sour smell of overheated electronics. Aside from the faint, sour smell of blood from last night, nothing else was new. The inside of the bag containing the mixed candies smelled faintly of machine parts and some weird oily sour smell. Nibble on a sprig of parsley after eating raw onions or garlic or whenever your breath smells sour. Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell. The air was stagnant with the heavy, sour smell of beer. The sour smell of the old milk still lingered there. 2Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger. she was quite a different woman from the sour, bored creature I had known Example sentencesExamples The fee struck a sour note with some supporters, particularly given the strong tradition of free festival entertainment. Lord George's voice had turned slightly sour. On a sour note, however, a small minority are intent on putting the future of the lake in jeopardy by their illegal actions. So as not to end this on an entirely sour note, there have been films worth looking forward to this season. How could someone so sour look so lovely in sleep? Another American novel finished my recreational reading for the summer on something of a sour note. She smiled, then her face turned very sour. First off, if your dad's in sour mood, give him space. The Easter long weekend may end on a sour note for some commuters who use public transit. Getting nervous that the year is about to end on a sour note, housebuilders make a last-minute bid to entice visitors to show homes and offer incentives. My mom shot him an extremely sour look. We'd survived two months without cross words, so it would've been a shame to end things on a sour note. On the home front, the year began so brightly for Waterford United but ended on a very sour note. It was on returning to the car that the only sour note of the day was struck, resoundingly. "Yeah, whatever, " I replied, suddenly in a sour mood. Handshakes then turned to fisticuffs after the final hooter to end a miserable day on an even more sour note. Celia made a sour face showing disgust towards Mrs. Larson. After just getting out of detention, he was in a pretty sour mood. I crossed my arms over my chest giving him an extremely sour look. The book also ends on a sour note, which is to say it doesn't go quite as far as it should. Synonyms embittered, resentful, nasty, spiteful, sharp-tongued, irritable, irascible, peevish, fractious, fretful, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, petulant, pettish 3(of soil) deficient in lime and usually dank. Example sentencesExamples Direct chopping and ensiling this wet corn can cause heavy seepage and a sour silage. Our soil is on the sour side and lays wet in spots, as the old-timers say. 4(of petroleum or natural gas) containing a relatively high sulfur content. Example sentencesExamples You become an activist when your dog is impounded, or a freeway is built past your house, or your child gets a disease because of pollution or sour gas. Work is underway to develop a comprehensive human health and air quality monitoring system and clinical practice guidelines for sour gas exposure. Even so, the dangers of sour gas are still visible. When a sour gas well is ignited, hydrogen sulphide is transformed into sulphur dioxide, which is less immediately dangerous, but still toxic. This risked individuals working on the platform being exposed to the toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide and excessive quantities of sour gas being allowed into the atmosphere. nounˈsou(ə)rˈsaʊ(ə)r with modifier A drink made by mixing an alcoholic beverage with lemon juice or lime juice. a rum sour Example sentencesExamples I sit drinking a pisco sour at a street café behind the cathedral watching people hurrying along the busy street. Suffice it to say, there are times when retro music and amaretto sours are just more important than tv. The whiskey/amaretto sours are the best in the city. Cesar da Silva, the bar manager, mixes the best whisky sours in the world. I just loved the place, atmosphere & the whiskey sours. They are chilling out in Cyprus and will get back sometime this week once they've taken their fill of brandy sours. My favorite drinks are Malibu pineapple and Amaretto sours - I can't drink strong drinks. A locally famous drink is the anise seed based raki, and brandy sour is another favorite with the Turkish Cypriots. This is the place to spot the label-clad lovelies sipping their brandy sours, often accompanied by half of the racing drivers on the Formula One circuit. A favorite drink is pisco sour, in which pisco is served with lemon juice, sugar, beaten egg whites, and ice. I learned how to make a wild berry mojito, a caipirinha, a pisco sour and a watermelon margarita. In Chile pisco is drunk as a liqueur after meals but a pisco sour, sometimes sold in bottled, pre-mixed form, can make a refreshing aperitif. The waitress brought the whiskey sour and Kat took a long drink out of it. She took a drink of her vodka sour, then looked out over the club, her eyes widening. I'll be watching y'all with an amaretto sour in one hand and a remote control in the other. verbˈsou(ə)rˈsaʊ(ə)r 1Make or become sour. with object water soured with tamarind no object a bowl of milk was souring in the sun Example sentencesExamples Aftershocks, rain and landslides are hampering aid efforts and souring drinking water, but survivors want more from authorities. As the figures show, whole cow's milk is definitely not for everyone, at least not unless the milk is soured or fermented. This is how milk is soured; live yoghurt is beneficial despite being a dairy food, because fermentation has altered the character of the milk solids. Tom recalls his mother ‘scalding’ the milk in hot weather - heating it to near boiling point to prevent souring. Casein is what makes up the curd that forms when milk is left to sour. It's an uncomfortable proximity, compounded by Greenlaw's evocations of unbearable heat, of cream cakes souring as soon as they're baked, of days that stagnate under the oppressive sun and of nights spent twisting and turning. Dairy products, especially soured milk, were reserved for children. People eat a wide range of dairy products, such as tvorog, a kind of cottage cheese, and riazhenka, slightly soured milk. Smetana had to be made immediately before use, since it took only a few hours for the bacteria in the sour cream to sour the fresh cream completely. Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily. 1.1 Make or become unpleasant, acrimonious, or difficult. with object a dispute soured relations between the two countries for over a year no object many friendships have soured over borrowed money Example sentencesExamples He succeeded but only at the cost of further souring Anglo-German relations. The two were once friends, but their relations soured in recent years. The row threatens to sour relations between Prague and Washington. Relations soured after border disputes and clashes between troops followed by a war of words in which each accused the other of threatening security. Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city. Things soured after a six-year-old girl hurt herself when the dog on guard chased her in a bid to protect its family. The break-up was extremely acrimonious and relations between them further soured as he accused her of stealing his press from the film. It simply sours the atmosphere and creates hostility and distrust. Campbell was a dreadful choice because his controversial character had soured media relations before he'd even opened his mouth. Australia and New Zealand renew their fierce rivalry today with the fallout from one of the darkest moments in cricket still souring their relations. The biggest problem is of course that it sours the investment climate. The spy plane crisis further soured relations. Although economic and social ties between the island and the mainland have since grown, political relations have soured. But the 22-year-old defender confessed the final result soured any celebrations he had planned. Some feel the country's reputation for generosity has been spoiled and community sentiment permanently soured. However, relations have soured dramatically in the last four weeks. Anti-social behaviour can sour every aspect of a person's life, spoiling the peace in what should be the ultimate sanctuary of their own home. The bad news is that French antipathy towards him is so obvious that it sours the whole occasion. This can lead to a deep underlying hurt that can often sour any new relationships. Even there on the dance floor with everyone copying our thirty-year-old spins and wring-the-dishrag moves, I couldn't stop sober thoughts like this from souring the moment. Synonyms embitter, make bitter, make resentful, anger, exasperate, disillusion, disenchant, poison, envenom, disaffect, dissatisfy, frustrate, alienate spoil, mar, damage, harm, impair, be detrimental to, wreck, upset, hurt, worsen, poison, colour, blight, tarnish Phrases go (or turn) sour Become less pleasant or attractive; turn out badly. the case concerns a property deal that turned sour Example sentencesExamples But later, these relationships begin to turn sour. By January of this year, however, the whole deal was beginning to turn sour. Then Brady picked up a leg injury when racing for possession and things began to turn sour for the men in blue. But what initially seems to be the ultimate lucky escape turns sour when the survivors begin to die, one by one, in gruesome and unexpected ways. When the relationship went sour, the plaintiff asked for her fair share of the assets based on restitution and marriage. He says that within days of arriving he was kidnapped and threatened at gunpoint, after associates claimed they were owed money from a deal that turned sour. But five years ago everything began to turn sour after rogue tip operators moved in next door. I would never stay in a relationship that turns sour, even if I think in the long term it might work out. But the deal starts to turn sour when a ruthless new sergeant arrives on the scene, determined to clean up the base. If the deal goes sour, investors can walk away and the bank is left holding the property. sour grapes Used to refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves. government officials dismissed many of the complaints as sour grapes Example sentencesExamples Let's keep the sour grapes to a minimum and recognise that perhaps this was a relationship which was getting too comfortable and that some of us were ready for a change anyway. As you have always known, Canadians are sophisticated enough politically to see through the sour grapes of criticism. The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes. The rest of her scathing remarks are mostly sour grapes. The reality is she's articulate and she's composed, and apparently some people tonight have sour grapes. The views of the objectors are obviously tinged with disappointment but should not be dismissed as sour grapes. Can anyone really believe that review is anything but sour grapes? However those behind the enterprise insist that it's just a case of sour grapes. But for me to go on about it would be to criticise the referee, and it might sound like sour grapes. There were no regrets, no complaints, not even a whiff of sour grapes. Origin Old English sūr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuur and German sauer. adj.1 phr.
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