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The Meaning of bore
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
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(v. t.) To befool; to trick.
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(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).
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(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.
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(v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
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(v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
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(n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
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(n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
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(n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
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(n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
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(n.) Caliber; importance.
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(n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
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(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.
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(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.
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() imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
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(imp.) of Bear
Synonyms
tidal bore
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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
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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
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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
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nevermore
,
ngor
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nohr
,
nor
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oar
,
offshore
,
ohr
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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
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seashore
,
sedor
,
senor
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shor
,
shore
,
singapore
,
snore
,
soar
,
sophomore
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sor
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sore
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sotomayor
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spaur
,
splore
,
spore
,
stevedore
,
stoehr
,
stohr
,
store
,
storr
,
swarthmore
,
swore
,
sycamore
,
tambocor
,
tenore
,
theodore
,
therefor
,
therefore
,
thor
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timor
,
tor
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tore
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torr
,
torre
,
tracor
,
troubadour
,
underscore
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uproar
,
villasenor
,
vore
,
war
,
warr
,
whore
,
woehr
,
wor
,
wore
,
yore
,
your