bore
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.
Proto-Germanic *burōną
Proto-West Germanic *borōn
Old English borian
Middle English boren
English bore
From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
Inflected forms:
form: bores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To inspire boredom in somebody.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bore someone to death
Reading books really bores me; films are much more exciting.
He bores me with some trick.
[…] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
gloss: To make a hole through something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
gloss: To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to bore for water or oil
An insect bores into a tree.
gloss: To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
gloss: To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bore one’s way through a crowd
What bustling crowds I bored.
gloss: To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This timber does not bore well.
gloss: To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their eyes bore into my back.
gloss: To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: The right hand of Curtis was open too much ; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.
Hanlan, it seems, led at about a mile, when Beach's steamer bored him, and to avoid the danger of being swamped, he put on a violent spurt and drew well clear of Beach, getting some lengths lead.
gloss: To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They take their flight […] boring to the west.
gloss: To fool; to trick.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: A hole drilled, bored, or milled through something.
pos: noun
examples: the bore of a cannon
the bores of wind-instruments
gloss: The diameter of such a hole.
pos: noun
gloss: The diameter of such a hole.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: The bore times the stroke times the number of cylinders equals displacement.
gloss: The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
pos: noun
gloss: A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
pos: noun
gloss: A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
pos: noun
gloss: One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
pos: noun
examples: My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
gloss: Something dull or uninteresting.
pos: noun
examples: What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
gloss: Calibre; importance.
pos: noun
examples: Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Synonyms: bore
banality
snooze
snoozer
Antonyms: interest
thrillsville
Related words: borer
boring
tedium
Derived words: boreable
boree
bore in
bore off
bore out
boring clam
rebore
tongue-boring
unbore
wood-boring
artesian bore
backbore
Boraga
bore draw
bore-draw
borefest
borefield
boregasm
borehole
boreism
bore lake
boreless
bore needle
boreout
borescope
boresight
bore sight
boresighting
boresome
bore water
borewell
chokebore
counterbore
crashing bore
cross bore
drawbore
full bore
full-bore
less is a bore
microbore
nanobore
overbore
sealbore
small-bore
smoothbore
throughbore
wellbore
windbore
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: shpo
lang: Arabic
word: ثقب
roman: thaqaba
lang: Bulgarian
word: пробивам
roman: probivam
lang: Bulgarian
word: дупча
roman: dupča
lang: Catalan
word: barrinar
lang: Catalan
word: perforar
lang: Catalan
word: foradar
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: teşmek
lang: Czech
word: vrtat
lang: Czech
word: vyvrtat
lang: Danish
word: bore
lang: Dutch
word: boren
lang: Esperanto
word: bori
lang: Faroese
word: bora
lang: Finnish
word: porata
lang: French
word: percer
lang: Galician
word: furar
lang: Galician
word: aburacar
lang: Galician
word: esburacar
lang: Galician
word: tradar
lang: Galician
word: buratar
lang: German
word: bohren
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τρυπάω
roman: trupáō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τετραίνω
roman: tetraínō
lang: Hungarian
word: fúr
lang: Hungarian
word: kifúr
lang: Hungarian
word: kiváj
lang: Icelandic
word: bora
lang: Ingrian
word: purata
lang: Irish
word: toll
lang: Italian
word: alesare
lang: Italian
word: scavare
lang: Latin
word: terebrō
lang: Macedonian
word: ду́пчи
roman: dúpči
lang: Māori
word: ore
lang: Māori
word: oreore
lang: Māori
word: poka
lang: Norwegian
word: bore
lang: Persian
word: سفتن
roman: softan
lang: Polish
word: borować
lang: Polish
word: świdrować
lang: Polish
word: wiercić
lang: Portuguese
word: cavar
lang: Quechua
word: hut'kuy
lang: Quechua
word: t'uquy
lang: Romanian
word: găuri
lang: Russian
word: сверли́ть
roman: sverlítʹ
lang: Russian
word: бура́вить
roman: burávitʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бу́шити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сврдлати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: búšiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svrdlati
lang: Slovak
word: vŕtať
lang: Slovak
word: prevŕtať
lang: Slovak
word: zavŕtať
lang: Slovak
word: vyvŕtať
lang: Slovene
word: vrtati
lang: Spanish
word: perforar
lang: Spanish
word: horadar
lang: Spanish
word: agujerear
lang: Swahili
word: -dunga
lang: Swedish
word: borra
lang: Tày
word: bón
lang: Tày
word: boóng
lang: Telugu
word: తొలుచు
roman: tolucu
lang: Thai
word: เจาะ
roman: jɔ̀
lang: Thai
word: ไช
roman: chai
lang: Turkish
word: burgulamak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بورغولامق
roman: burgulamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: свердлити
roman: sverdlyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: бурити
roman: buryty
lang: Vietnamese
word: khoan
lang: Vietnamese
word: đục
lang: Vietnamese
word: khoét