| sorb | (noun) acid gritty-textured fruit | Synonyms: sorb apple |
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| (verb) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption | Synonyms: take up |
| sorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption | - |
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| sorbed | (adjective) (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance | Synonyms: occluded |
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| sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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| sorbent | (noun) a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption | Synonyms: sorbent material |
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| sorbet | (noun) an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice | Synonyms: water ice |
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| sorcerer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| sorcerise | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerize |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| sorcerous | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| sorcery | (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, necromancy |
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| sordid | (adjective) meanly avaricious and mercenary | - |
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| (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, shoddy |
| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: flyblown, squalid |
| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid |
| sordidly | (adverb) in a sordid or squalid way | Synonyms: squalidly |
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| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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| sore | (adjective) roused to anger | Synonyms: huffy, mad |
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| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, tender |
| (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: afflictive, painful |
| (noun) an open skin infection | - |
| sorehead | (noun) someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
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| sorely | (adverb) to a great extent | - |
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| (adverb) in or as if in pain | Synonyms: painfully |
| soreness | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, irritation |
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| (noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, tenderness |
| sorgho | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sorghum | (noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum | Synonyms: sorghum molasses |
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| (noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass | - |
| sorgo | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgho, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sororal | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sisterly |
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| sorority | (noun) a social club for female undergraduates | - |
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| sorption | (noun) the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) | - |
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| sorrel | (adjective) of a light brownish color | Synonyms: brownish-orange |
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| (noun) a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color | - |
| (noun) large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces | Synonyms: common sorrel |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: dock, sour grass |
| (noun) any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis | Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel |
| (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle |
| sorriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: paltriness |
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| sorrow | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: grief |
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| (noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | - |
| (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness |
| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness |
| (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
| sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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| sorrowful | (adjective) experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss | - |
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| sorrowfully | (adverb) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner | Synonyms: dolefully |
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| (adverb) in a sorrowful manner | - |
| sorrowfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: mournfulness, ruthfulness |
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| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrow |
| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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| (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
| (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
| sort | (noun) an approximate definition or example | - |
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| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, kind, variety |
| (noun) a person of a particular character or nature | - |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sorting |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve |
| sorted | (adjective) arranged into groups | Synonyms: grouped |
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| (adjective) arranged according to size | - |
| sorter | (noun) a machine for sorting things (such as punched cards or letters) into classes | - |
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| (noun) a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office) | - |
| sortie | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sally |
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| (noun) (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation) | - |
| sorting | (noun) grouping by class or kind or size | - |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sort |
| sortition | (noun) making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn | Synonyms: casting lots, drawing lots |
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| sorus | (noun) cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond | - |
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| (noun) a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi | - |