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sour: adjective and adverb
sweet-and-sour: adjective and adverb

sour [ˈsaʊər, Brit -əʳ] ADJ

sour

azedo(-a)

sour milk

coalhado(-a)

to go sour

to go sour milk

sweet-and-sour ADJ

sweet-and-sour

Usage examples with sour

to go sour

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English

Well known as an edible wild fruit with a pleasantly sour apple-like flavour. en.wikipedia.org

His failures caused the relationship between the two to sour. en.wikipedia.org

When the fleshy part of the fruit is eaten, this molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing sour foods to taste sweet. en.wikipedia.org

Souring is similar to pickling or fermentation, but souring typically occurs in minutes or hours, while pickling and fermentation can take a much longer time. en.wikipedia.org

Thus, carbon dioxide by itself is an acid gas, not a sour gas. en.wikipedia.org

The business thrived at first but the partnership soured in 1988. en.wikipedia.org

On the other hand, two plant proteins, miraculin and curculin, cause sour foods to taste sweet. en.wikipedia.org

Unripe mango is sour in taste because of the presence of oxalic, citric and malic acids. en.wikipedia.org

This hydrodynamic flow can be increased by cold, air pressure, drying, sugar, sour (dehydrating chemicals), or forces acting onto the tooth. en.wikipedia.org

Its name stems from the production of lactic acid by bacterial fermentation, which is called souring. en.wikipedia.org

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