bored
verb
- 1
To inspire boredom in somebody.
- 2
To make a hole through something.
- 3
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
“An insect bores into a tree.”
- 4
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
“to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole”
- 5
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
“to bore one's way through a crowd”
- 6
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
“This timber does not bore well.”
- 7
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- 8
(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
- 9
To fool; to trick.
Antonyms
adjective
- 1
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do
- 2
Uninterested, without attention
“The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem”
- 3
Perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
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