Bore

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
• Homophones: boar, boor

From Old English borian ("to pierce"). Confer Danish bore, Norwegian bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō ("to bore, to pierce"), Latin feriō ("strike, cut") and Albanian birë ("a hole"). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

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Full definition of bore

Verb

1. (to make a hole)(transitive) To make a hole through something.
• ShakespeareI'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
2. (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 oilAn insect bores into a tree.
3. (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
• T. W. Harrisshort but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore ... a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
4. (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
• John GayWhat bustling crowds I bored.
5. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.This timber does not bore well.
6. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
• DrydenThey take their flight ... boring to the west.
7. (to inspire boredom)(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
• ShakespeareHe bores me with some trick.
• Carlyle... used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
8. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
9. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
• Beaumont and FletcherI 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

1. A hole drilled or milled through something.the bore of a cannon
• Francis Baconthe bores of wind instruments
2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
3. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
4. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
5. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
6. Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
• HawthorneIt is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
7. Calibre; importance.
• ShakespeareYet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Synonyms

Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

Noun

1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.

Verb

1. bore

   (simple past of bear)

Anagrams

• Boer
• Ebro
• robe