2syllables
souring
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Definitions ofsouring
1verb
- To make sour.
Example: "Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe."
- To become sour.
- To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To become disenchanted.
Example: "We broke up after our relationship soured."
- To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
1noun
- The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour.
- The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.
- Any sour apple.
- Vinegar.
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