bore🔊

(to inspire boredom)To inspire boredom in somebody.

(to make a hole)To make a hole through something.

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 form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).

(slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

(obsolete) To fool; to trick.

A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.

The place where such a well exists.

One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.

Something dull or uninteresting.

Calibre; importance.

A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

(spast)

(colloquial) (bear)

(proscribed) (spast)