Bore

Definition: Bore

Bore

Noun

1. A person who evokes boredom.

2. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).

3. Diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

4. (mining terms) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes.

Verb

1. Cause to be bored.

2. Drill a hole into.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Bore \Bore\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Bored; Boring.]. (references)

Satire

Building & Civil Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BORE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Bore

Arms

Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:

Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder.

Breadth, Thickness

Noun: breadth, width, amplitude; diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent; (space).

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite,

Pain

Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre; mauvais quart d'heur.

Annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener; bore, bother, pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague, pest.

River

Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation.

Satiety

Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil.

Weariness

Verb: weary; tire; (fatigue); bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience; set to sleep, send to sleep; buttonhole.

Bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket; pill, stiff; heavy hours, "the enemy".

Crosswords: Bore

Albanian (snow), Danish (bore, drill), French (boron), Swedish (Boreas), Welsh (early, morning).

If life's an awful bore, and living's just a chore that we do caus' death's not much fun. I just have the antidote, and though i mustn't gloat at the Moulin Rouge (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

You noble wives and mothers bore the brains outta me. (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos)

Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman (Rembrandt; writing credit: Carl Zuckmayer; June Head)

Enough! This begins to bore me. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

The bore brings up the ore (Jetsons: The Movie; writing credit: Eric Luke)

I know I bore them but they do it to me sometimes (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree)

It's a bore (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer)

I won't bore you with the detail baby (Fastlove; performing artist: George Michael)

The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore (Mother's Little Helper; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Razvojni put Bore snajdera (1972)

Servicing P-39: Bore Sighting All Guns (1942)

Bore of the Year Awards (1993)

Njeriu prej bore (1984)

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Books

• Big Bore Handguns (reference)

• Big Bore Rifles and Cartridges (reference)

• Bore No More! (reference)

• Bore No More! 2 (reference)

• Cross He Bore (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus: Greatest Hits [Edel] (reference)

• Elf: Gulf Bore Waltz (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Freud CS71MBA3 Cassette 65 Molding Cutter Shaper Set - 1-1/4" Bore (reference)

• Jesada CIT-223 Double Rail and Stile Shaper Cutter, Standard, 3/4" Bore (reference)

• Systi Matic 1430S Plastic Cutting Blades 10" Diameter, 5/8" Bore, 80 Teeth (reference)

• Freud SS200 1" Bore Dado Shim Set (reference)

• Freud UC-202 Bevel Raised Panel Shaper Cutter For 5/8" Stock - 3/4 Bore (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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The tidal bore in Turnagain Inlet. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Using an increment bore on a treeEnvironmental EducationFire WorkshopMcCall, IdahoFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Shelley Davis-Brunner.

Eat a variety, don't by a bore. Choose what's fresh and enjoy it more!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Smooth bore and bank from across the zapote. Credit: Library of Congress.

LaSalle St. Tunnel - looking south from north end of Twin Bore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Making sure. A workman inspecting bore of a complete barrel for a Garand rifle, the new infantry weapon used in the war program. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stop nuclear test boring : fight back : let's bore Westminster. Credit: Library of Congress.

The American imperialists and the reactionaries of various countries are all paper tigers. The struggle of the Chinese people bore witness to this. The struggle of the Vietnamese people is bearing witness to this. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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But all the duty of honour, the other part, remains never the less entire to them; nothing can cancel that: it is so inseparable from them both, that the father's authority cannot dispossess the mother of this right, nor can any man discharge his son from honouring her that bore him. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

at least, that I should ever bore people half so much about all the Knightleys together, as she does about Jane Fairfax

Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along

Sprung from the most unfathomable depths of social darkness, she bore on her brow the mark of the anonymous and unknown

He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes

The lights topped the rise and bore down on the house

He took kind leave of me, and embraced me at parting, which I bore as well as I could

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Children

Brazil

Over the past 10 years, there have been 21 murders in Maranhao State of boys between the ages of 9 and 13; all were from very poor families, and many bore signs of sexual assault. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Various sources report that thousands of FLG adherents have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned, and that approximately 200 or more FLG adherents have died in detention since 1999; many of their bodies reportedly bore signs of severe beatings or torture or were cremated before relatives could examine them. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

According to press reports and statements by his family members, al-Aqra's body bore signs of beatings and bruises. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

Roma families bore the brunt of the new rules, which expand the power of local officials to remove Roma from their homes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bore": bore a hole ♦ bore a well ♦ bore bit ♦ bore diameter ♦ bore hole ♦ bore into smth. ♦ bore one's way in ♦ bore stiff ♦ bore through ♦ bore to death ♦ crashing bore ♦ cylinder bore ♦ deviated bore ♦ small bore ♦ smooth bore ♦ test bore ♦ tidal bore. Additional references.

Beginning with "bore": bore-hole, bore-holes, bore-ins, bore-minded, bore-well.

Ending with "bore": smooth-bore, twelve-bore.

Afrikaans

boor, aanboor (broach, sink, strike, tap). (various references)

Albanian

biroj (drill, hole, perforate, puncture), birë (hole, puncture, spy hole), bezdis (displease, get, grate, Harrow, hassle, importune, inconvenience, nag, peeve, persecute, pester, press, pursue, ruffle, tease, trouble, vex), vrimë (aperture, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), valë batice, shpoj (broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), shpohem (prickle, puncture), mërzit (annoy, badger, bother, cloy, disgruntle, dissatisfy, get, nag, peeve, pester, plague, turn sour, vex), kanal i tytës, kalibër (caliber, calibre, gauge, grade, groove, size), hap gropë, gjë e mërzitshme (drag, yawn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملل (boredom, ennui, fatigue, monotony, ponderosity, tedium, tiredness, weariness), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), ‏مصدر إزعاج (plague, trouble), ‏حفرة (cavity, excavation, fossa, grave, hole, hollow, pit, trough), ‏حفر (burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏تجويف (bowl, cavity, chamber, concavity, dent, excavation, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, recess, scoop, sinus, socket), ‏عيار (caliber, calibre, gauge, standard), ‏ضجر (be fed up, bored, boredom, dullness, fed up, give up, importune, irk, plumb, tedium, tire, tiredness, weariness, weary), ‏ضج (buzz, din, make noise, resound), ‏إرتفاع المد, ‏ثقب (aperture, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, tear, vent), ‏برم (boredom, impatient, lay, querulous, tire, twirl, worry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сондажен отвор (boring), сонда (auger, borer, explorer, probe, sonde, stylet, well), калибър (caliber, calibre, gauge, size), голяма вълна навлизаща в река, отвор на цев, отегчавам (bother, pester, tire, turn off, weary), омръзвам (pall, tire), бургия (auger, broach, drill, perforator), пробита дупка, пробивам (break through, broach, hole, jump, nip, perforate, pip, prick, rupture, scuttle, sink, smash in), избутвам (detrude, extrude, shove out, supplant), издълбавам (chase, engrave, gouge, hollow out, incise, notch, quarry, scoop out, scrape, scrape out), досадник (gadfly, perisher). (various references)

Chinese 

劖 (cut, polish). (various references)

Czech

vrtat (drill, poke), vývrt, razit (coin, strike), prùmìr (average, diameter, Gage, gauge, mean), otvor (aperture, gap, hole, opening, orifice, vent), otravovat (annoy, bother, bug, hassle, nag, nark, peeve, pester, worry), otrava (bitch, bother, business, chore, drag, nark, pain, pest, poison, spoilsport, tedium), nudit (ennui), nuda (boredom, tameness, tedium), kalibr (calibre, Gage, gauge, stamp). (various references)

Danish

bore (drill), kede, bor (boron, bur, burr, dental drill, drill, gimlet, milling cutter, plough drill, trepan, trephine). (various references)

Dutch

aanboren (broach, sink, strike, tap). (various references)

Esperanto

borilo, bori (drill), boratingi (broach, sink, strike, tap), tedi, enuigi. (various references)

Faeroese

bora (drill), troytta. (various references)

Farsi 

منفذ (Pore, Vent), موی دماغ کسی شدن , مته (Auger, Drill, Gimlet), نقب زدن (Burrow, Tunnel, Undermine), کالیبرتفنگ , گمانه , وسیله سوراخ کردن , سفتن (Perforate, Pierce), سنبیدن , سوراخ کردن 1 (Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), سوراخ (Hole, Leak, Mesh, Orifice, Outage, Overture, Peck, Pigenhole, Puncture), خسته کننده (Insipid, Monotonous, Prolix, Tedious, Tiresome, Wearisome), خسته کردن (Exhaust, Harass, Jade, Tire), خسته شدن (Irk, Overweary, Runout), بامته تونل زدن . (various references)

Finnish

porata (drill). (various references)

French

forer, ennuyer (bother), trou de sonde (bore hole, borehole, boring), rencontrer, percer, mascaret (tidal bore), lasser, calibre. (various references)

Frisian

boar. (various references)

German

bohrloch (borehole, boring, drill-hole, well), bohren (boring, drill, drive, gnaw, keep on, pick, sink), langweiler (drag, slowcoach, slowpoke), langweilen (be boring, tire, to bore), Bohrung (borehole, boring, drill-hole, drilling, sinking). (various references)

Greek 

ερευνητική γεώτρηση (bore hole, boring, drill hole, hole, new-pool wildcat, well), διαμέτρημα (caliber, calibre), διάτρημα, οχληρόσ (bothersome, irksome, obtrusive, pesky, pest, plaguy), οπή (aperture, borehole, hole, leak), τρυπώ (broach, drill, lance, prick, prong, punch, puncture, riddle, spear, stave, stave in, sting, tap, terebrate, thrust, wimble), τρυπώ με τρυπάνι, διατρυπώ (impale, perforate, transfix), εσωτερική διάμετρος κυλίνδρου (cylinder bore), κύμα αποτόμου μετώπου, υδραυλικό άλμα στην παράκτια ζώνη (eagre), πλήττω (bludgeon, strike), προξενώ ανία, βαρετός άνθρωπος, βαριέμαι (feed up, I am bored, I am fed up with, I am sick of), σύραγξ ξυλοφάγου,οπή ξυλοφάγου (bore hole, borer hole, grub, hole, tunnel), κυλινδρικός θάλαμος έκρηξης, αόρ. του bear. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשעמם (be tedious, be tiresome, make dull, stupefy), לחדור (enter, get home, get through, infiltrate, inroad, penetrate, permeate), לנקוב (perforate, punch), לנקור (gouge, perforate), שתם (hole), שעמום (boredom, dreariness, dryness, dullness, humdrum, monotony, prosiness, tedium), חור (aperture, cavity, hole, pore, socket), טרדן (bother, heckler, nuisance, pest, terror, troublesome person), נקב (hole, hollow, orifice, pore, puncture). (various references)

Hungarian

furat (borehole, caliber, calibre, mortice, mortise). (various references)

Indonesian

menggurdi, membosankan (arid, boring, drab, monotonous, tedious), melubangi dengan bor, cape (feed up, tire, weary). (various references)

Italian

annoiare (annoy, get bored, pester, tire), succiello, calibro (caliber, calibre, Gage, gauge), alesaggio (broaching, cylinder bore, reaming). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鼻摘み (uncouth person), ボール螺子 (ball screw, baud rate, boa, boar, boiler, bolo, bonehead, born, boyar, boycott, voice, voice mail box, voice recorder, voyager), 内径 (inside diameter), 口径 (aperture, calibre). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ボア (boa, boar), ないけい (inside diameter), こうけい (aperture, background, calibre, ecliptic longitude, filial piety, scene, setting, spectacle, successor, the essential point), はなつまみ (disgusting fellow, uncouth person). (various references)

Korean 

구멍 (Cavities, Cavity, hole, slot). (various references)

Manx

towley (boring, broach, drilling, hole, transfix, undermine), towl (aperture, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, hollow, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent, vent-hole, water supply), thiolley (hole, holepin, perforate, pierce, pit, pit of acids, punch, raise; boring; perforation), tharrarey, saih trooid. (various references)

Papiamen

bora (drill), bor (drill). (various references)

Pig Latin

orebay.(various references)

Portuguese

furar (boring, broach, drill, fall through, hole, jab, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, puncture, spit, stab, tap, thrust), diâmetro (caliber, calibre, diameter), calibre (caliber, calibre, gage, gauge, range), brocar (drill), aborrecer (annoy, badger, blister, bother, bug, burst with anger, disgust, displease, displeasure, distaste, fash, feeze, hate, hump, importune, irk, leech, loathe, molest, nag, nettle, offend, pester, pique, plague, put about, spite, tire, torment, trouble, vex). (various references)

Romanian

bârâi (annoy), gaurã fãcutã cu sfredelul, calibru (caliber, calibre, compass, diameter, gauge, jig, pass, pattern, size, sort), chinui (agonize, bait, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring), flux puternic al mãrii la gurã de, for a (hole), foraj (boring, drilling), aleza (broach, ream), gãuri (drift, drill, Gore, hole, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prick, prickle, puncture, spring, vent), trecut de la bear, om plictisitor (blighter), pisãlog (bothersome, faggot, pesky, pestiferous, pestle), plictisealã (boredom, botheration, ennui, flatness, heaviness, monotony, ponderosity, prolixity, spleen, tediousness, tedium, trouble, weariness), plictisi (annoy, bother, discommode, glut, irk, pall upon, pick on, plague, pother, trouble, weary, worry, worry out), sfredeli (drill, pounce, prick, turn), sfredeliturã, sonda (bottom, canvass, explore, fathom, feel the pulse, Plumb, probe, sound), forare. (various references)

Russian 

высверливать (drill), бор (boron, conifer forest), бур (auger, bar, miser), бурав (auger, gimlet, perforator, piercer, wimble), бурави�, буравить (drill, gimlet), надоедать (annoy, badger, bother, irk, persecute, pester, trouble, worry), протискиваться (jostle through, thread, thrust), внутренний диаметр (caliber, calibre), скучное занятие, высверленное отверстие, канал ствола, растачивать, сверлить (pick), скважина (chink, hole, keyhole, peep, pore, slit), скука (boredom, ennui, monotony, tedium, weariness), наскучить (annoy). (various references)

Scottish

rug (wrinkle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bušotina (boring, drill-hole), bušiti (drill), vrteti svrdlom, teško se probijati, dosadnjaković, dosadan čovek, dodijati (tire). (various references)

Spanish

aburrir (tire, weary), barrena (aiguille, auger, borer, drill, spin), taladrar (drill, Pierce, punch), calibre (caliber, calibers, calibre, Gage, gauge, profile, size). (various references)

Sranan

boro (drill), fruferi. (various references)

Swedish

borra (drill, sink), tråkmåns (bromide, drag, drip, humdrum, prune). (various references)

Thai

ทะลุ, ระอา. (various references)

Turkish

belâ (affliction, calamity, curse, damnation, darned, evil, ill, misfortune, nuisance, pest, plague, rock, scourge, tribulation, trouble), bunaltmak (drive smb. to the wall, give the willies, oppress, ply, ply with, push smb. to the wall, stupefy, weigh down, whelm), kalibre (caliber, calibre, Gage, gauge, jig), can sıkmak (bother, bug), daraltmak (bother, constrict, contract, narrow, straiten), delik (aperture, cavity, den, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, slot, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), delik açmak (dig a hole, drill, hole, honeycomb, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, run through, slot, vent), delmek (broach, dig into, dig through, drill, hole, make a hole in, perforate, pick, Pierce, pink, prick, puncture, ream, ream out, Spike, stab, stave in, stick), dert (affliction, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), çap (caliber, calibre, diameter), kafa uzatmak, yüksek dalga, kuyu (coalpit, draw well, pit, shaft, well), oymak (boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, incise, recess, scoop out, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), oyuk (alcove, burrow, cavern, cavity, excavation, gouge, hallow, hole, hollow, niche, pit, pocket, sinus, socket), sıkıcı şey (stodge), sıkıcı tip (boring person, drag, dryasdust, mope, non-person, nuisance, pill), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), sıkmak (ail, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), sonda (cannula, catheter, probe, searcher, seeker, style), sondaj yapmak (drill), kabak tadı vermek (Pall, pall on). (various references)

Turkmen 

burawlamak (drill). (various references)

Ukrainian

свердловина (chink, pore, well), свердлити (gimlet, wimble), канал ствола, калібр зброї, отвір (air gap, aperture, boring, breach, break, canal, clearance, embrasure, gape, hole, mesh, mouth, open, opening, orifice, ostiole, perforation, port, ventage, window), нудьга (boredom, damp, distemper, dullness, ennui, insipidity, insipidness, monotony, mope, needle, tedium, yearn, yearning), нудна людина (nuisance, plodder, prosaist, prose, proser), надокучати (annoy, bother, hassle, molest, pester, vex), бурити, бор (boron, burr), дірка (fray, rip, tear). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc chán ngắt, việc buồn tẻ điều buồn bực người hay quấy rầy, người hay nói chuyện dớ dẩn, người hay làm phiền. (various references)

Welsh

blino (aggrieve, ail, annoy, bother, get tired, tire, trouble, vex, weary), tyllu (hole, perforate, pierce), twll (aperture, hole), pla (nuisance, pestilence, plague), ebillio, dyn diflas, diflasu (disgust, surfeit, weary). (various references)

convulneravit, perforabis, perforabit, perforabitque, perforabunt, perforari, perforatur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bore": boreal, borecole, borecoles, bored, boredom, boredoms, boreen, boreens, borehole, boreholes, borer, borers, bores, borescope, borescopes, boresome. (additional references)

Words ending with "bore": drawbore, forbore, hellebore, overbore, rebore, smoothbore, upbore. (additional references)

Words containing "bore": arboreal, arboreally, arbored, arboreous, arbores, arborescence, arborescences, arborescent, arboreta, arboretum, arboretums, belabored, corroboree, corroborees, drawbores, harbored, harborer, harborers, hellebores, hyperborean, hyperboreans, jamboree, jamborees, labored, laborer, laborers, mislabored, neighbored, overlabored, rebored, rebores, semiarboreal, smoothbores, tabored, taborer, taborers, taboret, taborets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barje, berce, Beroe, Berre, beru, bfore, Bhoe, biore, bire, birel, biroe, birre, bobe, boe, boeh, Boere, boeren, boern, Boero, bofe, boge, bohea, bohr, boie, boire, bome, bomr, Boorde, boore, bora, Borah, Borak, Boram, borbe, borde, Borel, boren, boreo, boret, Borey, borg, borh, bori, borie, borim, bork, Borle, boro, borq, borr, borra, borre, Borrel, borro, borry, bors, bort, Boru, Borve, borx, bory, borz, bose, bote, Botrel, boue, bouraq, Boure, bouree, bourge, Bourje, bourme, Bourri, bove, bowe, boxe, boye, boze, bpr, bre, breo, breq, broa, broge, broj, brooe, broq, Bror, brou, bufe, bure, bureo, bureu, Buroe, burre, burue, byor, Obere, Obra, tbore, vore. (additional references)