bore

bore
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noun
1 person
ADJECTIVE
awful, crashing, dreadful (esp. BrE), real, terrible

Her husband is a crashing bore.

complete, total
PHRASES
a bit of a bore
2 a bore sth that you have to do
ADJECTIVE
real, terrible

It's a real bore having to meet my aunt for lunch.

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verb
ADVERB
easily

I'm very easily bored.

PREPOSITION
with

I won't bore you with too many details.

PHRASES
bore sb rigid (BrE), bore sb silly (BrE), bore sb stiff, bore sb to death, bore sb to tears

That lecture bored me to tears!

bore sb out of their brains (AmE), bore sb out of their mind, bore sb out of their tiny mind (BrE)
Bore is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑insect
Bore is used with these nouns as the object: ↑hole, ↑tunnel

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  • BORE — Le bore est l’élément chimique de symbole B et de numéro atomique Z = 5. Bien que sa chimie soit mal connue et en pleine évolution, les emplois de ses dérivés sont anciens, nombreux et importants. Au début du Moyen Âge, on importait en Europe du… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • bore — bore; bore·cole; bore·dom; bore·mat·ic; bore·scope; bore·some; bore·tree; hel·le·bore; wild·bore; coun·ter·bore; bore·some·ly; …   English syllables

  • Bore — may refer to:* Bore (engine), the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine * Bore (wind instruments), the interior chamber of a wind instrument * Bore (woreda), a district of Ethiopia that includes the town of Bore * Bore, Italy * Gauge (bore… …   Wikipedia

  • Bore — Bore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to plow, Zend bar. [root]91.] 1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bore — Bore, v. i. 1. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bore — ‘make a hole’ [OE] and bore ‘be tiresome’ [18] are almost certainly two distinct words. The former comes ultimately from an Indo European base *bhor , *bhr , which produced Latin forāre ‘bore’ (whence English foramen ‘small anatomical opening’),… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • bore — ‘make a hole’ [OE] and bore ‘be tiresome’ [18] are almost certainly two distinct words. The former comes ultimately from an Indo European base *bhor , *bhr , which produced Latin forāre ‘bore’ (whence English foramen ‘small anatomical opening’),… …   Word origins

  • Bore — steht für: ein stark ausgeprägte Gezeitenwelle das Laufquerschnittsvolumen (engl. bore) einer Feuerwaffe, siehe Liste der Feuerwaffen Fachbegriffe Bore (Emilia Romagna), eine Gemeinde in der italienischen Provinz Parma Bore (Äthiopien), Stadt im… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • bore — bore1 [bôr] vt. bored, boring [ME boren < OE borian, to bore < bor, auger < IE base * bher , to cut with a sharp point > Gr * pharein, to split, L forare, to bore, ferire, to cut, kill] 1. to make a hole in or through with a drill or… …   English World dictionary

  • Bore — (b[=o]r), n. 1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. [1913 Webster] 2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. [1913 Webster] The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. [1913 Webster] Love s… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bore —   [indisch »Flut«] die, / n, Sprungwelle, eine Gezeitenwelle mit fast senkrechtem vorderem Fluthang, die besonders bei Springflut in trichterförmig verengte Flussmündungen stromauf dringt, z. B. die Bore im Severn (Südwestengland), die Mascaret… …   Universal-Lexikon

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