Bore Definition

bôr
bored, bores, boring
verb
bored, bores, boring
To make a hole in or through with a drill or other rotating tool.
Webster's New World
To bore a hole or passage.
Webster's New World
To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
American Heritage
To be drilled by a tool.
Soft materials bore easily.
Webster's New World
To weary by being dull, uninteresting, or monotonous.
Webster's New World
noun
bores
A hole made by or as by boring.
Webster's New World
The inside diameter of such a hollow part; gauge; caliber.
Webster's New World
The hollow part inside a tube, pipe, or cylinder, as of a gun barrel.
Webster's New World
The caliber of a firearm.
American Heritage
A drilling tool.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Bore

Noun

Singular:
bore
Plural:
bores

Origin of Bore

  • From Old English borian (“to pierce”). Confer Danish bore, Norwegian bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forare (“to bore, to pierce”) and Albanian birë (“a hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bare wave from Old Norse bāra bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English boren from Old English borian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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