Bore | Mean of bore in English Dictionary

/ˈboɚ/

• Verb
• to make (someone) tired and annoyed by being uninteresting or too much the same
1. He was bored by the lecture. = The lecture bored him.
2. Good writers will avoid boring their readers at any cost.
3. Eventually she got bored with the party and left.
4. I was bored stiff during the movie.
5. I was bored to death the whole time he was talking.
6. He bores us all to tears by telling the same stories over and over again.
• Noun
• an uninteresting person or thing
1. They're a bunch of bores!
2. The lecture was a total bore.
• Verb
• to make (a hole, tunnel, etc.) in something with a tool or by digging
1. My drill isn't powerful enough to bore a hole through that post.
2. She designs machines that are used to bore tunnels.
3. Along the trunk of the tree are holes where insects have bored into the tree.
4. boring deep into the earth
5. The teacher's eyes bored into me. [=the teacher stared at me]

• to move forward steadily
1. We bored through the crowd and finally got to the gate.
• Noun
• a hole made by boring
• the space inside a gun barrel that is shaped like a tube
• the width of the inside part of a gun barrel
1. a .22 bore revolver
• a giant wave that rushes into a river or bay
1. a tidal bore