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- (verb): To inspire boredom in somebody.
- (verb): To make a hole through something.
- (verb): To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (verb): To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- (verb): To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (verb): To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (verb): To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (verb): (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
- (verb): To fool; to trick.
- (noun): A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (noun): Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- (noun): Any organism that bores into a hard surface
- (adjective): Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest.
- (adjective): Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.
- (adjective): Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- An insect bores into a tree.
- to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole
- to bore one's way through a crowd
- This timber does not bore well.
- What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.