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bore

If you bore somebody, you make them feel that they want to do something else because it is not interesting. I hate tennis; it bores me. If you bore a hole, you make a round hole by turning something round and round. You need to bore a hole in the wood to put the wire through.

bore

cause to be bored (= drill) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool don't drill here, there's a gas pipe drill a hole into the wall drill for oil carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall a person who evokes boredom a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes diameter of a tube or gun barrel (= tidal bore) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

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bore · verb

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Simple sentences

His efforts bore fruit.
Your complaints bore me.
You're starting to bore me.
I just hope I didn't bore you.
The prisoner of war bore himself with great dignity.
The tax bore hard on the peasantry.
The document bore his signature.
People who talk about themselves all the time bore me.
His wife bore him two daughters and a son.
They always bore arms with them.
To be honest, his talks are always a bore.
I won't bore you with the details.
Hour after hour in hope he bore,nor might his soul its faith give o'er; nor could the tyrant's scorn deriding, steal from that faith one thought confiding!
If a student and his or her professor bore each other, then both are wasting their time.
The tree bore golden apples.
His hard work bore fruit.
His research bore fruit in the end.
Her efforts bore fruit.
She bore up well under unfavorable circumstances.
What a bore.
The pastor's sermons may bore you, but they are morally edifying.
The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades.
You bore me.
What a bore!
That effort bore no fruit.

Movie subtitles

Harry will give us venous access, via a large-bore cannula, and then we will immediately give 30 milligrams of ketamine, one gram of paracetamol and one litre of warmed Hartmann's, please.
The dagger, which was stuck into the heart of the old racketeer, bore the same X mark on the handle.
I don't like them. They bore me.
Hunting was beginning to bore me.
It's all just a great bore, isn't it, darling?
Believe you me, you bore me to distraction.
Bit of a bore, but he means well, doesn't he?
My little ballerina is charming, but such a bore.
Do I bore you?
I personally use a bolt-action Mauser with a very large bore.
You know, New York would bore me now.
He must bore God stiff!
I hope I won't bore you with a story of a piteous foster-child?
Come on, don't be a bore.
The squadron bore down on the battleship.
Other boys bore me, they just leave me blue.
Other girls bore me, they just leave me blue.
They bore me.
They'd probably bore you to death.
Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out.
Does my speech bore you?
You bore me.
Did you know the law. that any person who does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort. or succor a rebel is as guilty as if he himself bore arms?
Complaining wives are such a bore.
Oh, what a bore!
It's a bore.
I don't like to be a bore.
But I bore you.
I told you on the first evening that this journey would bore us to death.
I've become a man in my home at the price of becoming a bore outside.
I don't think we need bore ourselves with them.
What a bore!
I'm afraid, like most old men with a hobby. I'm inclined to be a bit of a bore.
He's a bore, but why not marry him?
If I could understand why she's getting married. to that bore.

News and current affairs

Moreover, securitization contributed to bad lending: in the old days, banks that originated bad loans bore the consequences; in the new world of securitization, the originators could pass the loans onto others.
He emphasized that the reactions he described bore no resemblance to those in nature.
In other words, Bo bore all the hallmarks of a gangster boss: corrupt, ruthless towards his enemies, contemptuous of the law, and yet moralistic in his self-presentation.
The poor were among those who bore the biggest burden of the crisis, as wages plummeted and unemployment soared.
For basic scientific research, the potential return will be broadly available to any and all, whether or not they paid for it and bore the risk of failure.
And, unlike Fukushima, which bore a direct impact, Madras was far away from the epicenter of the earthquake that unleashed the tsunami.
MOSCOW: Russia's election campaign was a bore.
Last year in Kosovo, America bore the brunt of the military campaign.
He bore his suffering since the assassination attempt of 1981 with dignity.
And he bore the anguish of the suffering imposed on his family.
German foreign policy from 1890 to 1914, for which the Kaiser bore formal and intermittently actual responsibility, comprised a series of failures and setbacks.
The negative effect of the US financial setbacks on Indian stock markets, therefore, made little sense, since they bore no relation to the real value of Indian companies.
He bore his imprisonment for the sake of his cause.
Sudan bore the brunt of US retaliation, when President Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of an apparently harmless pharmaceutical factory near Khartoum as retaliation for an Osama bin Laden sponsored terrorist attack.

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