Meaning of bore In English

• 0 to talk or act in a way that makes someone lose interest:

  • "Am I boring you?" she asked anxiously.

  • We were all bored silly by the play.

• 1 to make a hole in something using a tool:

  • He used a drill to bore a hole in the wall.

  • The workmen bored through the rock.

• 2 past simple of bear

• 3 someone who talks too much about boring subjects:

  • I had to sit next to Michael at dinner - he's such a bore.

• 4 an activity or situation that is annoying or unpleasant:

  • Ironing is such a bore.

  • [ + -ing verb ] It's an awful bore cooking a meal every night.

  • [ + to infinitive ] It's such a bore to have to write this out all over again.

• 5 the space inside a pipe or tube, or the diameter (= measurement across the widest part) of this space:

  • a narrow bore

  • a bore of 16 millimetres

• 6 a very large wave that runs from the sea up a narrow river at particular times of year:

  • the Severn Bore

• 7 used in adjectives to express the width of the space inside a cylinder, especially the inside of a gun barrel (= part shaped like a tube):

  • a twelve-bore shotgun

• 8 to make someone lose interest:

  • Am I boring you?

• 9 to make a hole in something using a tool:

  • [ I ] Workmen bored through the rock.

• 10 past simple of bear

• 11 someone or something that is not interesting:

  • All he talks about is money – he’s such a bore.