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# bore

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /boɹ/
**IPA (UK):** /bɔː(ɹ)/
**Frequency rank:** 5416

## Meanings
1. To make someone feel tired and uninterested.
2. To make a hole in something using a tool or by digging.

## Examples
- His long stories about work bore everyone at the table.
- They bored a deep hole to reach the water.

## Synonyms
- banality
- snooze
- snoozer

## Antonyms
- interest
- thrillsville

## Derived Forms
- backbore
- boraga
- bore-draw
- boreable
- boree
- borefest
- borefield
- boregasm
- borehole
- boreism
- boreless
- boreout

## Related Forms
- borer
- boring
- tedium

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰerH-
- Root: boren
- Root: borian
- Root: *borōn
- Root: *burōną

## Etymology
From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.

## AI Etymology
Bore comes from Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.

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