bore (B1)
verb
Pronunciation: /bɔːr/
Definition
To make someone feel tired and impatient by being very dull, long, or uninteresting.
Examples
The lecture was so long and technical that it began to bore the students.
He has a habit of telling the same stories over and over, which really bores me.
Don't bore your guests with endless details about your work.
How to Use bore
- bore someone to death (idiom)
- To make someone extremely bored. — "The history lesson bored me to death."
- bore someone stiff (idiom)
- To make someone extremely bored. — "His constant complaining bores me stiff."
- bore of (prepositional phrase)
- To make someone tired of something by repeating it or being dull about it. — "I'm bored of this conversation."
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