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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(211) Citations commonly bore little resemblance to events.
(212) It bore out the warnings received from MI6.
(213) Those with high energies, such as iron, would penetrate the craft and bore through human cells.
(214) It was as though she were dead and he bore the responsibility for killing her.Sentencedict
(215) Five or six men, horsed, masked and well-armed, burst from a clump of trees and bore down on them.
(216) He had only ever been discovered once and still bore the scars on his wrist from the Alsatian's razor-sharp-teeth.
(217) The machine they used to bore the tunnel is the size of a two storey house.
(218) These tubes should be of adequate bore, without sharp bends, and as short as practicable.
(219) The crowd of mourners at his funeral bore witness to the affection and respect Stanley had earned through his life and work.
(220) The trial was a great scandal but she bore it all with courage and dignity.
(221) If this was Richard's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last.
(222) We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(223) She only purchased unpackaged products, which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag.
(224) Instead of bowling the ball, which bore a small silver shield, Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan.
(225) After she died in 1647, a new wife bore him one more son in his sixtieth year.
(226) Quintana, who works at a car wash, said she bore her first child at age 13.
(227) This, though he bore one arm in a rough sling, and looked tired and worried out of his slow mind.
(228) She bore two children, was banished from the colony and yet reappeared later.
(229) An icy wind howled and a great wall of snow bore down upon them.
(230) Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.
(231) They arrived in Israel on the same plane that bore Assad's coffin.
(232) They hatch out in 3-4 weeks and the larvae bore into the wood.
(233) If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. Henry Ward Beecher
(234) This process can be hastened by gentle pipetting of the egg masses through a wide bore glass mouth pipette.
(235) A later and quite definitive study conducted by Miller between 1973 and 1978 bore this out.
(236) The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler
(237) It bore no relation to the equivalent of aerodynamic facts, namely, anthropological evidence as a whole.
(238) But she can also be the biggest bore when she piles on endless details about her childhood stomping grounds.
(239) All bore ugly scars from repeated knife fights on the streets and in the dives around Clinton Avenue.
(240) Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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