Bore

verb bores · boring · bored

1. transitive To inspire boredom in somebody. to bore someone to death
2. transitive To make a hole through something. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. intransitive To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns. This timber does not bore well.
7. intransitive To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes). Their eyes bore into my back.
8. slang, transitive To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.). 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.
9. intransitive To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. They take their flight […] boring to the west.
10. obsolete To fool; to trick.

noun bores

1. A hole drilled, bored, or milled through something. the bore of a cannon
2. Australia A borehole sunk into an artesian basin to provide a source of water.
3. The diameter of such a hole.
4. especially The diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or compressor. The bore times the stroke times the number of cylinders equals displacement.
5. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
6. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
7. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
8. The place where such a well exists.
9. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person. My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
10. Something dull or uninteresting. What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
11. Calibre; importance. Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Similar: bore, banality, snooze, snoozer

noun bores

1. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave. In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.

Similar: bore, banality, snooze, snoozer

verb

1. past simple past of bear
2. colloquial, participle, past past participle of bear Q. When the Fireſhip appeared to be going down towards the Real, do you think that the Dorſetſhire could have bore down in Time, to have covered and aſſiſted her?
3. past, proscribed simple past of bare

proper noun

1. A surname.