bore
To make someone feel tired or not interested because something is not fun or exciting.
To cause someone to feel weary, impatient, or uninterested due to lack of excitement or variety.
A person or thing that makes people feel bored.
A person or thing that causes others to feel bored.
To make a hole in something using a tool or machine.
To make a hole in something by drilling, digging, or cutting.
The distance across the inside of a round tube or cylinder.
The internal diameter of a cylindrical object, such as a pipe, gun barrel, or engine cylinder.
A wave of water that moves quickly up a river from the sea when the tide rises.
A sudden rise of water moving up a river from the sea as the tide comes in, often forming a wave front.
- Base: bore
- Plural: bores
- Base: bore
- 3rd Person Singular: bores
- Present Participle: boring
- Past: bored
bore stiff
1Make someone very bored and inactive
To make someone feel very bored and want to do nothing.
- We were bored stiff during the meeting.
- This play will bore you stiff if you don't like history.
bore to death
1Make someone extremely bored
To make someone feel very, very bored.
- That documentary bored me to death.
- He bores his coworkers to death with fishing stories.
tidal bore
1Tidal wave moving up river channel
A wave that moves up a river from the sea when the tide comes in.
- The Amazon River experiences a massive tidal bore called the pororoca.
- We planned our trip to see the tidal bore at dawn.