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verb

Bore v. t. (past & past part. bored; pres. part. boring)

1.

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."

2.

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."

3.

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. "What bustling crowds I bored."

4.

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."

5.

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

Bore v. i.

1.

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).

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

adjective

bored adj.

1.

Tired of the world; bored with life.

Synonyms: world-weary.

2.

Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Opposite of interested.

Synonyms: blase.

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Etymology of 'Bored'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bored" Quotes from Famous Books

... moving object with a revolver is never easy, and to strike by the moonlight is difficult indeed. A dangerous flight of slugs bored the air around the fugitives for the first hundred yards of their flight, but after that the firing ceased, as the men of Sour Creek ...

— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand

... for six years. Fanatically devoted to his art, as Canova was at a later day, he rose at dawn and went to the studio, there to remain until night, and lived with his muse alone. If he went to the Comedie-Francaise, he was dragged thither by his master. He was so bored at Madame Geoffrin's, and in the fashionable society to which Bouchardon tried to introduce him, that he preferred to remain alone, and held aloof from the pleasures of that licentious age. He had no other mistresses than sculpture and Clotilde, one of the celebrities ...

— Sarrasine • Honore de Balzac

... motions. Sometimes they dashed into the stream; sometimes they pursued one another so quick, that the eye could scarcely follow them. In one place, where a high, steep sandbank rose directly above the river, I observed many of them go in and out of holes with which the bank was bored full. ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... in fact, only the beginning of his career. The lady with a sharp knife lifted his cap from his head; then she painted him all over a pale green. After the paint was dry, she bored three holes in his sides. My! how it hurt! but it was soon over, and she had fastened three slender chains through them, and hung the little Prince up in a sunny window. "What next?" he wondered. ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 • Various

... and fashionable watering-places, there were none. The swell who comes out to show his clothes and his horse; the nondescript, who may be a fast Life-Guardsman or a fishmonger; the lot of horse-dealers; and, above all, those blase gentlemen who, bored with everything, openly express their preference for a carted deer or red-herring drag, if a straight running fox is not found in a quarter of an hour after the hounds are thrown into cover. The men who ride on the Lincolnshire Wolds are all sportsmen, who know the whole country ...

— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey

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