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Boredom and Bore Definitions

Boredom

The condition of being bored; ennui.

Bore

To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.

Boredom

(uncountable) The state of being bored.

Bore

To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.

Boredom

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
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Bore

To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill
"three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels" (Elisabeth Rosenthal).

Boredom

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

Bore

To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously
A destroyer boring through heavy seas.

Boredom

The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

Bore

To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious
The movie bored us.
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Boredom

The feeling of being bored by something tedious

Bore

Past tense of bear1.

Bore

A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.

Bore

A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.

Bore

The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.
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Bore

The caliber of a firearm.

Bore

A drilling tool.

Bore

One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.

Bore

See tidal bore.

Bore

(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
Reading books really bores me, films are much more exciting.
Bore someone to death

Bore

(transitive) To make a hole through something.

Bore

(intransitive) 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.

Bore

(transitive) 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

Bore

(transitive) 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

Bore

(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
This timber does not bore well.

Bore

(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

Bore

(obsolete) To fool; to trick.

Bore

A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
The bore of a cannon

Bore

The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

Bore

A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

Bore

A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.

Bore

The place where such a well exists.

Bore

One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.

Bore

Something dull or uninteresting.
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.

Bore

Calibre; importance.

Bore

A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

Bore

To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.

Bore

To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood.

Bore

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

Bore

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
He bores me with some trick.
Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

Bore

To befool; to trick.
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,Baffled and bored, it seems.

Bore

To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

Bore

To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

Bore

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
They take their flight . . . boring to the west.

Bore

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; - said of a horse.

Bore

A hole made by boring; a perforation.

Bore

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
The bores of wind instruments.
Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.

Bore

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

Bore

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Bore

Caliber; importance.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Bore

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

Bore

A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

Bore

A person who evokes boredom

Bore

A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

Bore

Diameter of a tube or gun barrel

Bore

A hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

Bore

Cause to be bored

Bore

Make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool;
Don't drill here, there's a gas pipe
Drill a hole into the wall
Drill for oil

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