Synonym: drill, irk, pierce, puncture. Similar words: bored, labored, jamboree, born, labor, abort, suborn, borrow. Meaning: [bɔː] n. 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. a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes. v. 1. cause to be bored 2. make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool.
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(271) Krupat's face, which I knew so well, bore some recent marks.
(272) It was hard to tell which side bore more responsibility for the disorders, the police or the rioters.
(273) He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him, and she bore him three sons.
(274) The attack bore all the hallmarks of a loyalist murder bid.
(275) She bore down on the hybrids and, with her claws, she killed them almost before they realized.
(276) It would not do to have Miss Blagden imagine she bore any grudge.
(277) The drill is powerful enough to bore through solid rock.
(278) He still bore the scars of her teeth on his calf and upper thigh.
(279) She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children.
(280) You know, as in(Sentencedict.com), which one bore more excitement and panache.
(281) He said both men came from deprived backgrounds and bore a grudge against the area in which they lived.
(282) His eyes bore down on me out of a somewhat hawklike face, and I immediately became flustered.
(283) He's an unutterable bore.
(284) Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore.
(285) At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life.
(286) Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.
(287) The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun.
(288) Posted in huge letters on classroom walls, the words bore into plebes.
(289) She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.
(290) The engine block and alloy cylinder head is shared with the 1.4-litre Energy engine so the bore is identical.
(291) I went down the steps, slowly, enjoying the way each step bore my weight.
(292) Those empty houses bore mute witness to the violence of the times.
(293) The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
(294) Those who could not take this minimum daily requirement orally were fed by fine bore nasogastric tube.
(295) The melon rind bore traces of a rare type of the Salmonella bacteria.
(296) None the less, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.
(297) Tests using Auto cad bore this out with an overall 55% increase in shade operations falling to 16% in subtract operations.
(298) Amelia bore eight children in her gracious house, six of whom would reach adulthood.
(299) The Hooper who existed in Brideshead Revisited, though, bore all the weight of Waugh's opprobrium.
More similar words: bored, labored, jamboree, born, labor, abort, suborn, borrow, boring, border, harbor, born of, borough, belabor, aborted, abortive, abortion, border on, neighbor, stubborn, borrowed, elaborate, laborious, stubbornly, aboriginal, elaborated, subordinate, laboratory, collaborate, elaboration.