English-Spanish translations for sore

llagaNo soy médico, pero entiendo que muchos comentarios ponen el dedo en la llaga. I am not a doctor, but I gather that many comments in it put the finger on the sore spot. En su última intervención, el señor Comisario puso el dedo en la llaga, es decir, en las formalidades aduaneras. In his last speech, the Commissioner put his finger on one sore point, and that is customs. La aprobación de la gestión 1999 puso el dedo en ciertas llagas de la administración de la Comisión. The discharge for 1999 highlighted a number of very sore points in the Commission' s administration.

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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