OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 9969

sour

/ˈsaʊə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acedar • acidificar • acidular • agriar • avinagrar
To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
acedarse • acidificarse • agriarse • avinagrarse
To become sour.
So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
afectar • perjudicar
To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
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