verb
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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.