Usually means: Painful skin lesions, often infected.
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  1. sores: Merriam-Webster
  2. sores: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sores: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sores, sores: Wordnik
  5. sores: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sores: Wiktionary
  7. sores: Dictionary.com
  8. sores: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sores: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sores: Legal dictionary

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  1. sores: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sores: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Sores: Merck Manuals
  3. sores: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sores: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SORES: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sore as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sore)

adjective:  Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
adjective:  Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
adjective:  Dire; distressing.
adjective:  (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
adjective:  (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
adverb:  (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
adverb:  Sorely.
noun:  An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
noun:  Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
verb:  (transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
noun:  A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
noun:  A young buck in its fourth year.
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