bore
/bɔr/
verb
- To make someone feel tired and uninterested by being dull or tedious.
- I don't want to bore you with all the details of my trip.
- The long lecture began to bore the students after twenty minutes.
- His constant complaining about the weather really bores me.
- To make a hole in something using a tool, such as a drill.
- Engineers had to bore through solid rock to build the tunnel.
- The carpenter used a drill to bore a hole in the wood.
- She carefully bored a small hole for the screw.
noun
- A person or thing that is dull and causes boredom.
- He's such a bore — he only talks about his stamp collection.
- Don't be a bore; come join the game!
- The party was a bore, so we left early.
- The hollow inside of a tube or gun barrel, or the diameter of that hollow.
- The rifle has a .22 caliber bore.
- They measured the bore of the cylinder to check for wear.
- The pipe's bore was too narrow for the water to flow freely.
- A high tidal wave that moves up a narrow river or estuary.
- Surfers love to ride the tidal bore on the Qiantang River.
- Local fishermen know when the bore will arrive each day.
- The bore rushed up the river with a loud roar.