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bore

UK /bɔː/US /boɹ/

verb10

  1. to make someone tired and restless by being long, slow or not interesting
  2. To make a hole through something.
  3. To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
  4. To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
  5. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
  6. To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
  7. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
  8. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  9. (slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
  10. (no longer used) To fool; to trick.

noun12

  1. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
  2. Something dull or uninteresting.
  3. A hole drilled, bored, or milled through something.
    • the bores of wind-instruments — 1631
  4. (Australia) A borehole sunk into an artesian basin to provide a source of water.
  5. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
  6. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
  7. The diameter of such a hole.
  8. The diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or compressor.
  9. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
  10. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  11. Calibre; importance.
  12. The place where such a well exists.
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Phrases with bore

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