bore

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: boar, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), 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 (“a hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

Boring a hole through a wooden plank with an auger.

bore (third-person singular simple present bores, present participle boring, simple past and past participle bored)

1. (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
   • Shakespeare

     He bores me with some trick.

   • Carlyle

     […] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

2. (transitive) To make a hole through something.
   • Shakespeare

     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

   An insect bores into a tree.

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

   • T. W. Harris

     short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood

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

   • John Gay

     What bustling crowds I bored.

6. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

   This timber does not bore well.

7. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
   • Dryden

     They take their flight […] boring to the west.

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

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9. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored, it seems.

• (make a hole through something): see also Thesaurus:make hole

• interest

• (to make a hole): borer
• (to inspire boredom): bored, boredom, boring

bore (plural bores)

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

   the bore of a cannon

   • Francis Bacon

     the bores of wind instruments

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

     It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

7. Calibre; importance.
   • Shakespeare

     Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

• See also Thesaurus:bore

From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”). Cognate with Icelandic bára, Faroese bára.

bore (plural bores)

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

bore

1. simple past tense of bear

• Bero, Boer, Ebro, robe

From Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish báireach and Old Irish bárach, whence i mbáireach and i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach (Munster, Connaught) and Irish amárach (Donegal).

bore m

1. morning

• IPA^(key): /borɛ/
• Rhymes: -orɛ
• Hyphenation: bo‧re

bore

1. vocative singular of bor ("pine wood"):

• IPA^(key): /boːrɛ/[1]
• Rhymes: -oːrɛ
• Hyphenation: bo‧re

bore

1. vocative singular of bor ("boron"):

• oreb
• robe

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bore

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of boren

• boer, Ebro, robe, ober

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ/

bore m (uncountable)

1. boron

• “bore” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• orbe, robe, robé

A back-formation from boren; reinforced by Old Norse bora.

• boore

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːr(ə)/

bore (plural bores)

1. A bore, hole, puncture or indentation.
2. A gap, cavity or piercing.
3. (rare, euphemistic) The anus; the asshole.

• English: bore
• Scots: bore, boir

• “bōre (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

From Old English borian.

bore

1. Alternative form of boryn

From Old English bār.

bore

1. Alternative form of bor

From Old Norse bora

bore (imperative bor, present tense borer, simple past and past participle bora or boret, present participle borende)

1. to bore or drill (make a hole through something)

• borerigg

• “bore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

bore

1. past participle of bera

From Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”). Compare Breton beure, Old Irish bárach (whence i mbárach (“tomorrow”), modern Irish amáireach and amárach).

• (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔrɛ/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈboːrɛ/, /ˈbɔrɛ/

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bore m (plural boreau)

1. morning

• bore da (“good morning”)