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soar

soar [ sawr ]

intransitive verb (past and past participle soared, present participle soar·ing, 3rd person present singular soars)

Definition:

1. increase rapidly: to increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount

soaring prices

2. fly: to fly or rise high in the air

3. glide high: to glide on rising currents of air

4. become more intense: to rise to a higher, more intense, or exalted level

Hopes for peace soared at the end of the day's talks.

noun

Definition:

act of soaring: the act of soaring, or the height or range reached by soaring

[14th century. < Old French essorer< Latin ex- "out" + aura "air"]

soar·er noun

Spelling Note


	soar or sore? Do not confuse the spelling of soar and sore, which sound similar. Soar is chiefly used as a verb, meaning "increase rapidly" or "fly or rise high in the air": The plane soared into the clouds.Prices are soaring. Sore is an adjective meaning "painful" (as in a sore finger) or a noun meaning "a painful skin infection or wound" (as in open sores on his arms and legs).

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