English-French translations for sore

désespérant
douloureux
Permettez-moi d'identifier les points que nous jugeons "douloureux". Let me identify what could be regarded as our 'sore points'. Nous avons également abordé un sujet douloureux: les différences de structures bancaires et économiques entre l'Europe et les États-Unis. The sore point in question consists, above all, of the differences in banking and economic structures between Europe and the United States.
endolori
pénible
plaie
On a permis que Gaza reste une plaie ouverte. Gaza has been allowed to remain a running sore. La Bande de Gaza est devenue l'éternelle plaie du Proche-Orient. The Gaza Strip has become the running sore of the Middle East. La Tchétchénie est une plaie ouverte et les élections grossièrement manipulées n’ont rien fait pour la panser. Chechnya is a running sore and the grossly manipulated elections did nothing to heal it.
ulcère

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

Her feet were sore from walking so far.
The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

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