James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her).bore1 verbbore2 verbbore3 noun
borebore1 /bɔː $ bɔːr/ verb 
VERB TABLE
bore
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | bore |
| he, she, it | bores | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bored |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bored |
| he, she, it | has bored | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bored |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bore |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bored |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am boring |
| he, she, it | is boring | |
| you, we, they | are boring | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was boring |
| you, we, they | were boring | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been boring |
| he, she, it | has been boring | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been boring |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be boring |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been boring |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Am I boring you?
- Being alone with a baby all day bored her to tears.
- He bores everyone with his stories about his girlfriends.
- Poetry bores me.
- The machine they used to bore the tunnel is the size of a two storey house.
- The mining company bored a 5000 foot hole.
- They had to bore through solid rock.
- And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.
- I will tell you frankly the word Marxism is very boring to me.
- It bore out the warnings received from MI6.
- Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
- There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.
- Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
- Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her). The speech bore (=had)the stamp of authority.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her). The speech bore (=had)the stamp of authority.· The Wolf of Kabul bore down upon him.· His eyes bore down on me out of a somewhat hawklike face, and I immediately became flustered.· An icy wind howled and a great wall of snow bore down upon them.· Her great white face bore down on mine.· She bore down on the hybrids and, with her claws, she killed them almost before they realized.· He bore down again, pressed himself against my back.· Five or six men, horsed, masked and well-armed, burst from a clump of trees and bore down on them.· How Linda fell on to the track and he tried to pick her up just as the train bore down on them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bore somebody silly
the past tense of bear- At worst, a crashing bore.
- And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
- He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
- He was deadly serious and I knew it.
- His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
- It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
- Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
- The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
- The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
- He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
- It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
- Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
- The tests scare the pants off many managers.
- Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
- And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
- Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
- He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
- He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
- Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
- Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
- We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
bore1 verbbore2 verbbore3 noun
borebore2 ●●○ verb VERB TABLE
bore
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | bore |
| he, she, it | bores | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bored |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bored |
| he, she, it | has bored | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bored |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bore |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bored |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am boring |
| he, she, it | is boring | |
| you, we, they | are boring | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was boring |
| you, we, they | were boring | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been boring |
| he, she, it | has been boring | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been boring |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be boring |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been boring |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.
- Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
- There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.
- Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
- Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.
THESAURUS
to make a hole in the ground using your hands, a tool, or a machine: · Some workmen were digging a trench at the side of the road.· In Africa, the people know where to dig for water.
to dig a hole in the ground, using your hands or a tool: · Make a hole just big enough for the plant’s roots.
if an animal burrows, it makes a hole or a passage in the ground by digging the earth with its feet, nose etc: · The rabbits had burrowed a hole under the fence.
British English, plow American English to turn over the soil using a machine or a tool pulled by animals, to prepare the soil for planting seeds: · The farmers here still plough their fields using buffaloes.
formal to dig a large hole in the ground, especially as a preparation for building something: · The men began excavating the hole for the pool.
to make a deep round hole in the ground using a special machine, especially in order to look for oil or water: · Companies need a special licence to bore for oil.
Longman Language Activatorto make someone feel bored to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in: · Am I boring you?bore somebody with something (=bore someone by talking about a particular subject): · He bores everyone with his stories about his girlfriends.bore somebody to death/tears (=make someone very bored): · Being alone with a baby all day bored her to tears.
to make a hole in the ground or surface of something to make a space by removing the inside part of something: hollow out something/hollow something out: · Carefully hollow out the pineapple and then fill it with the ice-cream.
British to make a hole in the ground using a tool that is made for digging: · To plant the tree you need to dig out a hole about 20 cm wide and 30 cm deep.· The workmen were already digging out the foundations for the building.
to make a deep cut in a surface, using something sharp, especially in order to remove something: · The blade gouged a deep wound in her leg.gouge out something/gouge something out (=remove something by violently cutting a hole): · In the play he tries to gouge out his own eyes.
to make a very small hole in something, especially accidentally, using something pointed such as a pin: · A small bead of blood formed where she had pricked her finger.· Prick the potatoes before baking them.
to make a narrow hole in something using a tool that turns round and round very quickly: · I heard the dentist start drilling, but I couldn't feel anything.drill for oil/water/gas etc: · Oil companies still drill for oil off Santa Barbara.drill into: · It sounds like someone's drilling into the wall.
to make a hole in a hard surface such as rock or the ground using a lot of pressure, especially in order to find or remove minerals, coal etc: · The mining company bored a 5000 foot hole.· The machine they used to bore the tunnel is the size of a two storey house.bore into/through: · They had to bore through solid rock.
to accidentally hit the surface of something, especially something metal, so that part of the surface is bent or slightly lower than the rest: · He accidentally dented the garage door, trying to reverse in.
WORD SETSaqueduct, nounbore, verbbore, nounborehole, nouncanalize, verbcivil engineering, nounculvert, noundam, noundam, verbdesalination, noundredge, verbdyke, nounpile, nounpile driver, nounpneumatic drill, nounpontoon, nounpontoon bridge, nounS-bend, nounsewer, nounsewerage, nounsteam shovel, nounstructural engineer, nounsump, nounsurveyor, nounwater main, nounwater tower, nounwaterworks, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her). The speech bore (=had)the stamp of authority.
(=make them very bored)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her). The speech bore (=had)the stamp of authority.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bore somebody silly
1[transitive] to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about something they are not interested in: - At worst, a crashing bore.
- And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
- He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
- He was deadly serious and I knew it.
- His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
- It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
- Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
- The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
- The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
- He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
- It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
- Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
- The tests scare the pants off many managers.
- Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
- And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
- Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
- He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
- He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
- Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
- Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
- We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
He’s the sort of person who bores you at parties. a film that will bore its young audiencebore somebody with something I won’t bore you with all the technical details.bore somebody to death/tears (=make them very bored)2[intransitive, transitive] to make a deep round hole in a hard surfacebore something through/into/in something The machine bores a hole through the cards.bore through/into To build the tunnel they had to bore through solid rock.► see thesaurus at dig3[intransitive + into] if someone’s eyes bore into you, they look at you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortablebore1 verbbore2 verbbore3 noun
borebore3 ●●○ noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a 12-bore shotgun
- At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life.
- Washing the dishes is a bore.
- Winston is such a bore!
- Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.
- It was in the direction of Temple Bar Creek and the Mereenie water bores.
- Solitons are solitary waves; the Severn bore is a good example.
- Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore.
THESAURUSto make a hole in something
to cause a hole to appear in something: · Make a hole in the bottom of the can using a hammer and nail.
to make a small hole in or through something, using a pointed object: · The dog’s teeth had pierced her skin.· Shelley wanted to have her ears pierced (=for earrings).
to make a very small hole in the surface of something, using a pointed object: · Prick the potatoes before baking them.· My finger was bleeding where the needle had pricked it.
to make a hole through paper or flat material using a metal tool or other sharp object: · I bought one of those things for punching holes in paper.· You have to get your ticket punched before you get on the train.
to make a small hole in something, especially something where skin or a wall surrounds a softer or hollow inside part: · The bullet had punctured his lung.
formal to make a hole or holes in something: · Fragments of the bullet had perforated his intestines.
to make a hole using a special tool, often one which turns round and round very quickly: · The dentist started drilling a hole in my tooth.· They won a contract to drill for oil in the area.
to make a deep round hole through a rock, into the ground etc: · They had to bore through solid rock.· The men were boring a hole for the tunnel.
Longman Language Activatorperson someone who is boring never says or does anything interesting: · He's so boring - all he ever talks about is football.· The professor was so boring, hardly anyone came to class.· Pam's parents are nice, but they're very boring.
someone who is dull is not unpleasant, but their life and their conversation is never interesting or exciting.: · Our neighbours are OK, I suppose, but they're so dull!· I'm afraid I must seem very dull compared with all those interesting people you meet.
a boring person who talks too much about themselves and about the things that they are interested in: · At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life.
WORD SETSaqueduct, nounbore, verbbore, nounborehole, nouncanalize, verbcivil engineering, nounculvert, noundam, noundam, verbdesalination, noundredge, verbdyke, nounpile, nounpile driver, nounpneumatic drill, nounpontoon, nounpontoon bridge, nounS-bend, nounsewer, nounsewerage, nounsteam shovel, nounstructural engineer, nounsump, nounsurveyor, nounwater main, nounwater tower, nounwaterworks, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a 12-bore shotgun a fine-bore tubeCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her). The speech bore (=had)the stamp of authority.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a 12-bore shotgun a fine-bore tube James bore her no malice (=did not feel any malice towards her). The speech bore (=had)the stamp of authority.· But she can also be the biggest bore when she piles on endless details about her childhood stomping grounds.· Power will be provided by a big-bore V-twin.· Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore.
· This process can be hastened by gentle pipetting of the egg masses through a wide bore glass mouth pipette.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bore somebody silly
- At worst, a crashing bore.
- And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
- He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
- He was deadly serious and I knew it.
- His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
- It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
- Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
- The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
- The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
- He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
- It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
- Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
- The tests scare the pants off many managers.
- Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
- And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
- Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
- He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
- He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
- Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
- Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
- We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
WORD FAMILYnounboreboredomadjectiveboredboringverbboreadverbboringly
1[singular] something that is not interesting to you or that annoys you: Waiting is a bore. You’ll find it’s a terrible bore.2[countable] someone who is boring, especially because they talk too much about themselves or about things that do not interest you: He turned out to be a crashing bore (=used to emphasize that someone is very boring).3[singular] the measurement of the width of the inside of a long hollow object such as a pipe or the barrel of a gun: Take a length of piping with a bore of about 15 mm.12-/16-/20- etc bore a 12-bore shotgunwide-/narrow-/fine- bore a fine-bore tube4[singular] a wave of water that moves quickly along a river from the sea at particular times of the year: the Severn bore5[countable] a borehole