SOURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soured mean? 

• SOURED (adjective)
  The adjective SOURED has 1 sense:

1. having turned bad

  Familiarity information: SOURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having turned bad

Similar:

off; sour; turned (in an unpalatable state)

Also:

sour (having a sharp biting taste)

Antonym:

unsoured (not having turned bad)

 Context examples 

Her temper has been soured, remember, and ought not to be tried.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How could it be otherwise, when Helen, at all times and under all circumstances, evinced for me a quiet and faithful friendship, which ill-humour never soured, nor irritation never troubled?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman,—but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

May's answer was inaudible, but another young lady, whose temper was evidently a little soured by making lemonade, added, with a disagreeable laugh, Very lovely, for she knew she wouldn't sell them at her own table.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Master Micawber, whose disposition appeared to have been soured by early disappointment, and whose aspect had become morose, yielded to his better feelings, and blubbered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)