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The definition of a bore is something or someone dull and uninteresting.

(noun)

An example of bore is a person who only ever wants to talk about his pet iguana and nothing else.

To bore is defined as to drill holes in something or make a hole in something.

(verb)

An example of bore is when you use a drill to make a whole in your cabinet door for the knob to go in.

See bore in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb bored, boring

to make a hole in or through with a drill or other rotating tool
to make (a hole, tunnel, well, etc.) by or as by drilling
to force (one's way), as through a crowd
to weary by being dull, uninteresting, or monotonous

Origin: 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

intransitive verb

to bore a hole or passage
to be drilled by a tool: soft materials bore easily
to move forward slowly but steadily, as if by boring
to become weary and disinterested

noun

a hole made by or as by boring
1. the hollow part inside a tube, pipe, or cylinder, as of a gun barrel
2. the inside diameter of such a hollow part; gauge; caliber
a tiresome, dull person or thing

Origin: ME < the v.; also < ON bora, a hole

noun

a high wall of moving water caused by a very rapid rise of the tide in shallow, narrow channels

Origin: ME bare, a wave < ON bara, a billow < IE *bhoros < base *bher- > bear

transitive verb, intransitive verb

bear

See bore in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb bored bored, bor·ing, bores

verb, transitive

To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.

verb, intransitive

To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill: “three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels” (Elisabeth Rosenthal).
To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously: a destroyer boring through heavy seas.

noun