Souring

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sour \Sour\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Soured}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Souring}.]
     To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon
     sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in
     adversity.
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           They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder
           the hatred of vice from souring into severity.
                                                    --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Souring \Sour"ing\, n. (Bot.)
     Any sour apple.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  souring
       n : the process of becoming sour

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "souring":
     acescence, acetification, acidification, acidulation, aggravation,
     amplification, annoyance, augmentation, contentiousness, deepening,
     deliberate aggravation, deterioration, embittering, embitterment,
     enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fermentation,
     heightening, increase, intensification, irritation, magnification,
     provocation, sharpening, worsening