sore

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Painful to the touch; tender.
• adjective Feeling physical pain; hurting.
• adjective Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous.
• adjective Causing embarrassment or irritation.
• adjective Full of distress; sorrowful.
• adjective Informal Angry; offended.
• noun An open skin lesion, wound, or ulcer.
• noun A source of pain, distress, or irritation.
• transitive verb To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
• adverb Sorely.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A state of suffering or pain; grief; sorrow; misery.
• noun A wounded or diseased spot on an animal body; a painful or painfully tender place, with or without solution of continuity, on or near the surface of the body.
• noun A source of grief, distress, annoyance, or bitterness; a misfortune; a trouble.
• To make sore; wound.
• An obsolete spelling of soar.
• Painful, as being the seat of a wound or of disease; aching; specifically, painfully sensitive to the touch: said of the part affected, or, by extension, of the entire member or person concerned.
• Inflicting physical suffering; giving bodily pain.
• Suffering mental pain; distressed; painfully sensitive; touchy.
• Bringing sorrow, misery, or regret; distressing; grievous; oppressive.
• Associated with painful ideas or feelings; accompanied by grief, anger, mortification, regret, discomfort, or the like; serving as an occasion of bitterness: as, a sore subject.
• Severe; violent; fierce.
• Exceeding; extreme; intense.
• Wretched: vile; worthless; base.
• Reddish-brown; sorrel. See sorrel, and compare sorage, sore-eagle, sore-falcon, sore-hawk.
• noun A hawk of the first year.
• noun A buck of the fourth year. See sorrel, 3.
• With physical suffering; so as to cause bodily pain; painfully.
• In a manner indicating or causing mental pain; deplorably; grievously; bitterly.
• Violently; fiercely; severely.
• Exceedingly; thoroughly; intensely.
• Firmly; tightly; fast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective rare Reddish brown; sorrel.
• adjective (Zoöl.) See Sore, n., 1.
• noun (Zoöl.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
• noun (Zoöl.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
• adjective Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts.
• adjective Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
• adjective Severe; afflictive; distressing.
• adjective obsolete Criminal; wrong; evil.
• adjective (Med.) inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche.
• adjective See Angina, and under Putrid.
• adverb In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
• adverb Greatly; violently; deeply.
• noun A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
• noun Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
• noun (Med.) See under Gold, n.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
• adjective Dire; distressing.