as in yawns
someone or something boring
for once, the graduation speaker wasn't a real bore
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as in drills
to make a hole or series of holes in
some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard
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as in wearies
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous
the professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death
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Recent Examples of bores
Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Anyone who thinks English Heritage sites are run by bores is in for a surprise.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
The researchers plan to expand their study to a larger number of boreholes, including water bores, to understand the full scope of the issue better nd find more opportunities to reduce emissions.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.
—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Anyone who thinks English Heritage sites are run by bores is in for a surprise.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
The researchers plan to expand their study to a larger number of boreholes, including water bores, to understand the full scope of the issue better nd find more opportunities to reduce emissions.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
In the film, one glowing maggot scores an oversized moth, wraps it up, then bores through its eye before eating its living brain.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bores
drips
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Brushed with a maltose syrup glaze, the ducks roast in a custom oven over a water bath, where fat drips into water instead of flames, keeping the meat moist and the smoke clean.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
2 Oct. 2025
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Put foil or a baking sheet underneath to catch drips.—
Julie Harans,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Bores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bores. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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