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The Meaning of bore

  • (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
  • (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
  • (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
  • (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
  • (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
  • (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
  • (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
  • (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
  • (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
  • (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
  • (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
  • (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
  • (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
  • (n.) Caliber; importance.
  • (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
  • (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
  • (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
  • () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
  • (imp.) of Bear

Synonyms

tidal bore , stupid person , caliber , gauge , pudding head , dolt , eagre , eager , calibre , stupid , stupe , dullard , pillock , pudden-head , poor fish , drill hole , bore-hole , aegir , gage , standard of measurement , quality , fag out , weary , play out , wear upon , fag , pall , drill , fatigue , run down , exhaust , tire , wear out , sap , wear , outwear , tire out , wear down , jade , practise , practice , exercise

Antonyms

interest

Homophones

baur , boar , boer , bohr , borre

Rhymes

aancor , abhor , accor , ador , adore , albacore , antiwar , anymore , ardmore , armentor , ashore , backdoor , balthazor , baltimore , bangalore , bangor , barrymore , bator , baur , before , boar , boer , bogor , bohr , bookstore , borre , c4 , carnivore , cat-4 , cavalli-sfor , centaur , chore , claymore , clore , coar , cohr , commodore , cor , core , corps , corr , crore , damore , decor , delore , deplore , devor , dinosaur , dior , doerr , dohr , door , dore , dorr , drawer , drugstore , ecuador , el-salvador , elnore , elsinore , encore , espectador , evermore , explore , eyesore , faure , floor , folklore , for , fore , four , frore , furthermore , gabor , galore , glor , glore , goar , gore , gorr , guarantor , hardcore , herbivore , heretofore , hoar , hoare , hors , humidor , ignore , igor , implore , indoor , inshore , jacor , jambor , kenmore , knorr , kohr , labore , labrador , lahore , lakeshore , lamaur , laur , laure , lazor , lenore , livermore , livor , loar , loehr , lohr , longcor , longshore , lor , lore , m4 , matador , mazor , melor , mentor , meritor , mevacor , mohr , montefiore , montemayor , moore , more , morr , nevermore , ngor , nohr , nor , oar , offshore , ohr , oncor , onshore , or , ore , orr , outdoor , outpour , outscore , paramore , phosphor , por , pore , porr , postwar , pour , prewar , rapport , restore , roar , roehr , rohr , salvador , salvatore , san-salvador , saur , schnorr , schor , schorr , scor , score , seashore , sedor , senor , shor , shore , singapore , snore , soar , sophomore , sor , sore , sotomayor , spaur , splore , spore , stevedore , stoehr , stohr , store , storr , swarthmore , swore , sycamore , tambocor , tenore , theodore , therefor , therefore , thor , timor , tor , tore , torr , torre , tracor , troubadour , underscore , uproar , villasenor , vore , war , warr , whore , woehr , wor , wore , yore , your