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How to pronounce “sour”
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Pronunciation guide for sour
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sour with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Naked Pint
>>Christina: --It's from my home town ah, from a little place called St. Louis, Missouri,
- Definition summary
- Tasting of acidity.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce sour
The Naked Pint
>>Christina: --It's from my home town ah, from a little place called St. Louis, Missouri,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sour”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Tasting of acidity.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- [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 sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
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