Bore Synonyms & Definitions

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• BoreDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp.) of Bear
2. (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
3. (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
4. (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).
5. (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
6. (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.
7. (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
8. (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
9. (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
10. (n.) Caliber; importance.
11. (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.
12. (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.
13. (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore ones way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
14. (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
15. () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
16. (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.
17. (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
18. (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
19. (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.

• BoredDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Bore

• BoreleDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).