bored

/bɔːd//bɔːɹd/

verb

  1. 1

    To inspire boredom in somebody.

  2. 2

    To make a hole through something.

  3. 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. 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. 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. 6

    To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

    This timber does not bore well.
  7. 7

    To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

  8. 8

    (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

  9. 9

    To fool; to trick.

Antonyms

adjective

  1. 1

    Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do

  2. 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. 3

    Perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

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