Dictionary Entry
bore
bore is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Bear. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1past tense
of Bear
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- 5transitive verb
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
- 6transitive verb
To befool; to trick.
- 7intransitive verb
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).
- 8intransitive verb
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.
- 9intransitive verb
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- 10intransitive verb
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
- 11noun
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
- 12noun
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
- 13noun
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
- 14noun
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
- 15noun
Caliber; importance.
- 16noun
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
- 17noun
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.
- 18noun
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.
- 19
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
- 20noun
a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- 21noun
diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- 22noun
a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- 23noun
a person who evokes boredom
Synonyms
- 24verb
make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"
"drill a hole into the wall"
Synonyms
- 25verb
cause to be bored
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