verb

definition

To make sour.

example

Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.

definition

To become sour.

definition

To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.

definition

To become disenchanted.

example

We broke up after our relationship soured.

definition

To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

definition

To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

definition

To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

noun

definition

The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour.

definition

The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.

definition

Any sour apple.

definition

Vinegar.

Examples of souring in a Sentence

Dean's mood was souring by the minute.

A bad instructor at a fitness club may not guide a practitioner properly, resulting in injury and forever souring the experience.

The lactic acid bacillus, always present in unboiled milk (to which the souring of milk is due), is easily destroyed by heat; but the bacillus mesentericus, often found in it, forms spores, which are not destroyed by ordinary boiling, and germinate when the milk is kept at a moderately warm temperature, producing a brisk fermentation whereby a large volume of gas is liberated.

Leave the milk on the skin 20 to 30 minutes and rinse gently away to prevent souring.

Without further purification it is also used for "souring" in bleaching, and in tin and lead soldering.

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