Definition of "bore" []

• To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill. (verb-transitive)
• To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing. (verb-transitive)
• To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill: "three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels” ( Elisabeth Rosenthal). (verb-intransitive)
• To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously: a destroyer boring through heavy seas. (verb-intransitive)
• A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill. (noun)

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• "To-morrow we go up to Town "pour ce bore," as the good King always said to me; whenever there were tiresome people to present he always said: "Je vous demande pardon de ce _bore_.""
• "Another folio, Rochefort's History of the Caribby Islands, was lettered "Davies 'Carriby Islands," because the title bore the statement "Rendered into English by John Davies.""
• "Because of the heroic size of the bottles, the pictured bottle on the label bore"