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souring

verb

Meaning

  1. To make sour.
  2. To become sour.
  3. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  4. To become disenchanted.
  5. To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
  7. The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour.
  8. The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.
  9. Any sour apple.
  10. Vinegar.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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