Results for bore

Definition of bore:

• part of speech: (noun)

  A hole made by boring; a wearisome person.

• part of speech: (noun)

  The hole made by piercing or boring with a tool; the cavity or hollow in anything, as in a gun- barrel; a person or thing that annoys.

• part of speech: (noun)

  The advancing front of the tidal wave as it ascends certain rivers or estuaries, especially at a spring tide.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To make a hole in a hard body with some tool; to perforate; to pierce; to annoy by repeated applications.

Usage examples for bore:

“ Then he became a bore with a bad temper. ” Innocent Her Fancy and His Fact, - Marie Corelli.