souring
verb
- 1
To make sour.
“Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.”
- 2
To become sour.
- 3
To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- 4
To become disenchanted.
“We broke up after our relationship soured.”
- 5
To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- 6
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- 7
To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
noun
- 1
The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour.
- 2
The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.
- 3
Any sour apple.
- 4
Vinegar.
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