0 past simple and past participle of sour
2 to (cause to) become unpleasant or unfriendly:
But in recent months, the relationship had soured.
It misses much: for instance, the friendships that never soured and were never 'needed' in court.
The uneasiness which these factors created soured their relationship.
Even accusations of witchcraft had a diurnal rhythm with ' 'accidents ' ' like soured milk occurring in the daytime and more spectral horrors at night.
Dispossessed groups thus confronted a rhetoric of benevolence that marginalized them, while benefactors' moral character could become soured by fears of being tricked by shammers or the undeserving.
Although claims of stinginess could carry a social cost reducing the benefit of hunter control, such communication is reserved for cases where the social relationship has already soured.
If one is critical one is disloyal and soured-up.
Their souls were soured and their minds were poisoned by bitterness.
