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Definition of 'bore'Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.
Verb
( bor)
(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
* Shakespeare
- He bores me with some trick.
* Carlyle
- used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
(senseid)To make a hole through something.
* Shakespeare
- I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- to bore for water or oil
- An insect bores into a tree.
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
* T. W. Harris
- short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- to bore one's way through a crowd
* John Gay
- What bustling crowds I bored .
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- This timber does not bore well.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
* Dryden
- They take their flight boring to the west.
(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
- (Crabb)
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
Antonyms
* interest
Synonyms
* See
Related terms
* (to make a hole) borer
* (to inspire boredom) bored, boredom, boring
Noun
( en-noun)
A hole drilled or milled through something.
- the bore of a cannon
* Francis Bacon
- the bores of wind instruments
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
* Hawthorne
- It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
Calibre; importance.
* Shakespeare
- Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Synonyms
* See also
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic word for "wave".
Noun
( en-noun)
A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
Etymology 3
Verb
(head)
(bear)
Similar to 'bore'bare, bere, brie, barre, brae, bree, byre, bure, burye, barye, beroe, boree
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