souren

English

Etymology

sour +‎ -en

Verb

souren (third-person singular simple present sourens, present participle sourening, simple past and past participle sourened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To make or become sour.
    • 1816, James Stanier Clarke, The Life of James the Second King of England Etc, page 119:
      But now that peoples [sic] minds began to souren against the government, there hapen'd an accident which encreas'd that distemper to a great degree.
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