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sour
Smelling of fermentation or staleness
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adjective
Smelling of fermentation or staleness
adjective
Showing a brooding ill humor
“A dark scowl”
adjective
Inaccurate in pitch
“A false (or sour) note”
adjective
Having a sharp biting taste
adjective
In an unpalatable state
“Sour milk”
adjective
One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
noun
The property of being acidic
noun
The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
noun
A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
verb
Go sour or spoil
“The milk has soured”
verb
Make sour or more sour
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A dark scowl
The proverbially dour New England Puritan
A glum, hopeless shrug
He sat in moody silence
A morose and unsociable manner
A false (or sour) note
Her singing was off key
Sour milk
The milk has soured
The wine worked
The cream has turned — we have to throw it out
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