Crossword-Solution: BORE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bore | imp. | of Bear |
| Bore | v. t. | To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. |
| Bore | v. t. | To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. |
| Bore | v. t. | To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. |
| Bore | v. t. | To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. |
| Bore | v. t. | To befool; to trick. |
| Bore | v. i. | To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects). |
| Bore | v. i. | To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore. |
| Bore | v. i. | To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
| Bore | v. i. | To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. |
| Bore | n. | A hole made by boring; a perforation. |
| Bore | n. | The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. |
| Bore | n. | The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. |
| Bore | n. | A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. |
| Bore | n. | Caliber; importance. |
| Bore | n. | A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. |
| Bore | n. | A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. |
| Bore | n. | Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. |
| Bore | - | imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BORE | anagram | BEOR, BOER, EBOR, EBRO, OBER, ORBE, OREB, ROBE |
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Sentences with BORE (5)
Sometimes he poised himself in the air, listening intently, with his hand to his ear, and again he would stare down with eyes so bright that they seemed to bore two holes to earth.
From the wigwam Hiawatha Bore the wealth of Megissogwon, All his wealth of skins and wampum, Furs of bison and of beaver, Furs of sable and of ermine, Wampum belts and strings and pouches, Quivers wrought with beads of wampum, Filled with arrows, silver-headed.
All these and more came flocking; but with looks Down cast and damp, yet such wherein appear’d Obscure som glimps of joy, to have found thir chief Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost In loss it self; which on his count’nance cast Like doubtful hue: but he his wonted pride Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently rais’d Their fainted courage, and dispel’d their fears.
The Farmer and the Fox A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set it on fire.
She was perfectly aware that the neighbors had a good deal to put up with, and that they bore with Frank for her sake.
Quotes with BORE (3)
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A…
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 536 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).