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What does sour mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sour? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
  4. Peevish or bad-tempered.
  5. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
  6. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  8. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
Noun
  1. The sensation of a sour taste.
  2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
  3. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make sour.
  2. (intransitive) To become sour.
  3. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  4. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
  5. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
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