sours
Dictionary
noun
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
verb
- To make sour.
"Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe."
- To become sour.
- To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To become disenchanted.
"We broke up after our relationship soured."
- To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
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