📖 S — The English dictionary · page 71

sooth — Everyday, meaning 1: Truth.↗ The phrases «in sooth» and «for sooth» mean truly or indeed.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Truth; in the phrases "in good sooth" and "for sooth" it means truly or indeed.↗ Example: In sooth, she has no equal!↗ · For sooth, this is a man I play with.↗ · Sooth to say, the king was angry.↗ · A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.↗ (Writings PRO.15.4, JPS 1917)↗ · In good sooth, she has not her equal!↗ (The Brown Fairy Book) · For sooth this is a man with whom I play.↗ (Indian Fairy Tales) · For sooth it is a man with whom I play.↗ (Indian Fairy Tales)

soothe — Everyday, meaning 1: To soothe someone is to make them calm when they are upset, angry or worried.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To soothe pain is to make it feel less bad.↗ Example: Dad soothed the crying baby by rocking her.↗ · Cool running water soothes a burn.↗ · Soft music soothes me when I'm worried.↗ · Honey and lemon can soothe a sore throat.↗ · The nurse spoke in a soothing voice.↗ · Take slow breaths to soothe yourself when you're angry.↗ · As they rode on, the stranger did his best to soothe her.↗

soothingly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a calm, gentle way that makes someone feel less upset, worried or in pain.↗ Example: Mum spoke soothingly to the crying baby.↗ · «There, there,» said Ratty soothingly.↗ · The river murmured soothingly in the dark.↗ · The vet stroked the frightened dog soothingly.↗ · The cream felt soothingly cool on my sunburn.↗ · She hummed soothingly until he fell asleep.↗ · “It is not a great lie,” said Fionn soothingly.↗

soothsayer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who claims to foretell what will happen in the future.↗ Example: The soothsayer told the king his fortune.↗ · The soothsayer's son had no time to lose.↗ · Everyone went to the soothsayer for advice.↗ · For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.↗ (Torah DEU.18.14, JPS 1917)↗ · There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, (Torah DEU.18.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers; (Prophets MIC.5.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.↗ (Prophets JOS.13.22, JPS 1917)↗ · For Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob; for they are replenished from the east, and with soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the brood of aliens.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.6, JPS 1917)↗

soothsaying — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The act of foretelling what will happen in the future.↗ Example: Ye shall not eat with the blood; neither shall ye practise divination nor soothsaying.↗ (Torah LEV.19.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Are you in need of soothsaying?↗ · The old woman earned money by soothsaying.↗ · Fortune-telling is a kind of soothsaying.↗

sooty — Everyday, meaning 1: Sooty means covered with soot, the black powder left by smoke from burning coal, wood or oil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sooty means black or very dark, like soot.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sooty is the name of a yellow glove-puppet bear with black ears on a long-running British children's TV show.↗ Example: The chimney sweep had a sooty face and hands.↗ · The old fireplace was sooty and dusty.↗ · After the bonfire our clothes smelled smoky and looked sooty.↗ · Sooty smoke poured from the factory chimney.↗ · The cat had sooty paws after exploring the coal shed.↗ · A sooty owl lives in the forests of Australia.↗ · Granny remembers watching Sooty on TV.↗

sop — Everyday, meaning 1: A sop is something small given to someone to calm them down or keep them quiet, without really fixing the problem: a sop to the angry fans.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) A sop is a piece of bread soaked in milk, soup or gravy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare verb) To sop up is to soak up liquid with bread or a cloth.↗ Example: The free badge was just a sop to the angry customers.↗ · He sopped up the gravy with his bread.↗ · I came home from the rain sopping wet.↗ · The small pay rise was a sop to the workers.↗ · In the old story, the boy fed sops of bread to the dog.↗ · The extra playtime was a sop to stop us complaining.↗

sophistical — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Using clever but false arguments that seem true but are not.↗ Example: All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

soppy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK) Soppy means too soft and sentimental, full of love-talk or easy tears, in a way that some people find silly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) A soppy person is silly, weak or soft-hearted, too easily upset or too sweet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) Soppy can mean very wet and soaked.↗ Example: Ugh, this film is too soppy, they keep kissing.↗ · My big sister wrote a soppy poem about her boyfriend.↗ · Don't be soppy, it's only a little scratch.↗ · Dad goes all soppy when he sees baby photos.↗ · The card was full of soppy hearts and flowers.↗ · Our dog is a soppy old thing who loves cuddles.↗ · The grass was soppy after the storm.↗ (rare)↗

soprano — Everyday, meaning 1: A soprano is the highest singing voice, usually of women and girls, and also of boys before their voices break.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A soprano is a singer with that voice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Soprano describes an instrument in the highest range of its family: soprano recorder, soprano saxophone.↗ Example: My sister sings soprano in the school choir.↗ · The soprano hit a very high note.↗ · Boys can sing soprano before their voices break.↗ · I play the soprano recorder.↗ · The soprano part has the tune in this song.↗ · A famous soprano sang at the opera house.↗ · In SATB, S stands for soprano.↗

sorcerer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who uses magic; a wizard.↗ Example: The sorcerer waved his wand.↗ · The villagers shouted, «Sorcerer!»↗ · The old sorcerer gave them a magic word.↗ · Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts.↗ (Torah EXO.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, (Torah DEU.18.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams.↗ (Writings DAN.2.2, JPS 1917)↗ · But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; (Prophets JER.27.9, JPS 1917)↗

sorceress — Everyday, meaning 1: A sorceress is a woman who uses magic, often for evil purposes; a female sorcerer.↗ Example: The sorceress waved her wand and the frog became a prince.↗ · The Munchkins bowed to the good sorceress.↗ · Only witches and sorceresses wear white, Boq said.↗ · Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.↗ (Torah EXO.22.18, JPS 1917)↗ · But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.↗ (Prophets ISA.57.3, JPS 1917)↗

sorcery — Everyday, meaning 1: Sorcery is the use of magic spells and powers to make strange things happen.↗ Example: The old witch used her sorcery to hide the castle.↗ · The villagers feared the stranger's sorcery.↗ · No one could explain the sorcery that turned the stone to gold.↗ · Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.12, JPS 1917)↗

sore — Everyday, meaning 1: Sore means painful, aching or tender, especially when touched or used.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sore is a painful spot on the skin, often red or broken.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sore (informal, mostly American) means upset or annoyed.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A sore point is a subject that upsets someone.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Severe or very great, as in a very bad famine.↗ Example: I have a sore throat and a cough.↗ · My legs are sore after the race.↗ · He has a cold sore on his lip.↗ · My eyes are sore from the swimming pool.↗ · Don't be a sore loser — shake hands.↗ · Her red hat stuck out like a sore thumb.↗ · You're a sight for sore eyes!↗ · And his nose was all sore.↗ · And the famine was sore in the land.↗ (Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917)↗ · And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?'↗ (Torah GEN.31.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And the famine was sore in Samaria.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.2, JPS 1917)↗ · 'The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.↗ (Prophets ZEC.1.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Wilt Thou hold Thy peace, and afflict us very sore?↗ (Prophets ISA.64.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the famine was sore in the land.↗ (Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917) · And his nose was all sore.↗ (The Jungle Book) · And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917)

sorely — Everyday, meaning 1: Sorely means very much or greatly, so that it hurts or matters a lot: sorely tempted, sorely puzzled.↗ Example: The captain of the guard was sorely puzzled.↗ · I was sorely tempted to eat the last biscuit.↗ · Her feet were sorely tired after the long walk.↗ · When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.↗ (Prophets ISA.23.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken.↗ (Prophets ISA.16.7, JPS 1917)↗

soreness — Everyday, meaning 1: Soreness is pain, aching or tenderness in a part of the body, such as sore muscles after exercise, a sore throat or a sore knee.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare, old-fashioned) Soreness can mean being upset or annoyed about something, like still feeling «sore» about losing.↗ Example: I felt some soreness in my legs after the cross-country race.↗ · The cream helped the soreness on her sunburnt shoulders.↗ · Soreness in your throat can mean you are getting a cold.↗ · Stretching after sport can reduce soreness.↗ · The nurse asked if there was any soreness around the cut.↗ · Redness and soreness around a wound can be signs of infection.↗ · His arm had a little soreness after the injection.↗ · The soreness went away after a few days.↗ · The woman washed their feet, and rubbed them with an ointment that took all the soreness out of their bones, and made them as fresh as a daisy.↗

sorghum — Everyday, meaning 1: A tall cereal grass grown in warm, dry countries, especially in Africa and Asia, for its grain, its sweet juice and animal feed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The grain or syrup made from this plant.↗ Example: Sorghum grows well where there is little rain.↗ · In Sudan many families eat porridge made from sorghum.↗ · Farmers feed sorghum to cattle.↗ · Sorghum flour is used in gluten-free bread.↗ · We poured sorghum syrup on our pancakes in Tennessee.↗ · Sorghum is one of the most important cereals in the world.↗ · "Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug- juice in town--regular sorghum skimmings."↗

sorrel — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses.↗ Example: I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.↗ (Prophets ZEC.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

sorrow — Everyday, meaning 1: Sorrow is a deep feeling of sadness, especially because of a loss, death or disappointment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sorrow is a thing that makes you very sad.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Sorrow is also feeling truly sorry for something wrong you did, as in "sorrow for sin".↗ Example: The whole village felt sorrow when the old teacher died.↗ · Her eyes were full of sorrow.↗ · Life has joys and sorrows.↗ · He showed real sorrow for what he had done.↗ · "We share in your sorrow," said the card.↗ · The song was slow and full of sorrow.↗ · Losing the dog was a great sorrow to the family.↗ · Do you know it will bring you sorrow?"↗ · and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.↗ (Torah GEN.44.29, JPS 1917)↗ · it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.↗ (Torah GEN.44.31, JPS 1917)↗ · There is nothing better than joy, and nothing worse than sorrow or plague is.↗ [19] (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Again, they are minished and dwindle away through oppression of evil and sorrow.↗ (Writings PSA.107.39, JPS 1917)↗ · This shall ye have of My hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.↗ (Prophets ISA.50.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.↗ (Prophets JER.8.18, JPS 1917)↗