Word Finder - bore

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A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

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the bore of a cannon

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The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

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A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

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A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.

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One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.

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Something dull or uninteresting

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Calibre; importance.

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To inspire boredom in somebody.

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To make a hole through something.

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To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

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An insect bores into a tree.

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To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.

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to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole

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To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

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to bore one's way through a crowd

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To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

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This timber does not bore well.

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To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

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(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

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To fool; to trick.

I don't want to bore you to death.

Had she been a complete bore lately?

Jackson is a real bore, he's Dracula every single year, ughh.

The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even under his weight alone.

She's not as beautiful as the one who bore the infant and until, and until today lived in this house.

She took the hint but wondered who had hurt him so badly that he still bore a grudge thousands of years later.

Her body wouldn't be placed in a funeral pyre or surrounded by family and friends who bore her gifts one last time.

She was plotting her return with a chain of events that ended with the human that bore her likeness being turned over to Darkyn.

A tiny red haired woman, under five feet, Dean guessed, emerged from the vehicle that bore Colorado license plates.

The magistrates bore the name of scabini (schepenen or echevins), and at their head was the seigneurial official - the schout or baljuw.

After a visit to the Mauritius, then a Dutch possession, Tasman bore away to the south-east, and on the 24th of November sighted the western coast of the land which he named Van Diemen's Land, in honour of the governor under whose directions he was acting.

Once this goodwill had been shown, he bore no malice towards those who rendered him his liberty by preferring Gambetta.

Every face bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the women.

The branch of the Franks - who were a confederacy, not a people - which gradually overspread Gallia Belgica, bore the name of the Salian Franks..

I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?"

Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic.

And again all the faces in that crowd bore an identical expression, though now it was certainly not an expression of curiosity or gratitude, but of angry resolve.

However that may be, I was struck by the peculiar toughness of the steel which bore so many violent blows without being worn out.

Prince Andrew gaily bore with his father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him with evident pleasure.

Behind them soldiers and officers bore a large, dark-faced icon with an embossed metal cover.

The Russian troops were passing through Moscow from two o'clock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounded and the last of the inhabitants who were leaving.

Again, as at the church in Khamovniki, a wave of general curiosity bore all the prisoners forward onto the road, and Pierre, thanks to his stature, saw over the heads of the others what so attracted their curiosity.

Yes, they admitted it appeared a large volume of tips bore mutual similarities.

She still bore the bruises from upsetting him two days ago.

His nose bore the appearance of having been broken and set incorrectly more than once.

While she looked healthy, she bore blood on her neck that made him feel ill at the thought that Darkyn was bleeding her dry.

Or that she bore them no ill will.

The firm assertion of Darkyn's mate that she bore no one ill-will made more sense when he understood why she said it.

Whatever it was, I apologize for hurting you so much that you bore a grudge for thousands of years.

She didn't know how humans bore through it.

And yet, he couldn't help feeling as if he alone bore the weight of his planet on his back as he struggled to pay for food, water, and weapons.

Albert married Elizabeth, daughter of Meinhard IV., count of Gdrz and Tirol, who bore him six sons and five daughters.

After their junction it is probable that the road bore the name Via Latina rather than Via Labicana.

The signboard of a wayside inn near Goring Heath in Oxfordshire long bore a portrait of the king with couplets reciting how his majesty "drank from the bowl, and bowl'd for what he drank."

This site of the Prytaneum at Athens cannot be definitely fixed; it is generally supposed that in the course of time several buildings bore the name.

In 1316 she was married to Ulf Gudmarson, lord of Nericia, to whom she bore eight children, one of whom was afterwards honoured as St Catherine of Sweden.

The second son of the duke of Maine, Louis Charles de Bourbon (1701-1775), bore the title of count of Eu.

Thus, the sons inherited their fathers' hunting-ground, but bore their mothers' name and therewith the right to certain women for wives.

The Gallo-Celtic tribes bore the general appellation of Belgae, and among these the Nervii, inhabiting the district between the Scheldt and the Sambre were at the date of Caesar's invasion, 57 B.C., the most warlike and important.

A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it.

These dukes all bore the name of Godfrey (Godefroy) and the fifth of them was the great crusader.

She bore him two children, of whom one died in infancy at Murshidabad, and was shortly followed to the grave by her mother.

Albany had to blockade Margaret in Stirling Castle before she would surrender her sons, After being obliged to capitulate, Margaret returned to Edinburgh, and being no longer responsible for the custody of the king she fled to England in September, where a month later she bore to Angus a daughter, Margaret, who afterwards became countess of Lennox, mother of Lord Darnley and grandmother of James I.

There she became more and more Jansenist in opinion, and her piety and the remembrance of her influence during the disastrous days of the Fronde, and above all the love her brother, the great Conde, bore her, made her conspicuous.

The Blackhall bore, put down at his advice from 1885 to 1888, reached a water-bearing layer at the depth of 1645 ft.

The carapace of the prosoma was unsegmented and often bore a pair of eyes.

Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married.

During the hour Pierre watched them they all came flowing from the different streets with one and the same desire to get on quickly; they all jostled one another, began to grow angry and to fight, white teeth gleamed, brows frowned, ever the same words of abuse flew from side to side, and all the faces bore the same swaggeringly resolute and coldly cruel expression that had struck Pierre that morning on the corporal's face when the drums were beating.

But whether the city really bore the name of the people and the country is another question.

Eleanor bore Louis two daughters but no sons.