/bɔː/
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Translation
To make someone feel tired and not interested.
Word origin
The older verb bore, to drill a hole, comes from Old English borian. The sense of making someone tired first appears in the eighteenth century and its origin is not known.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- borian
Grammar
Verb typeregular (bore, bores, bored, boring)
Examples
meetings .
"Bore" needs an object: something bores someone.
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"Bored" describes how the person feels.
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"Boring" describes the thing; "bored" describes the person.
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