how to pronounce bore

verb:

1. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
2. To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
3. Past participle of bear.
4. To fool; to trick.
5. To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
6. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
7. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
8. To inspire boredom in somebody.
9. Simple past tense of bear.
10. To make a hole through something.
11. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

noun:

1. A hole drilled or milled through something, or its diameter.
2. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
3. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occuring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
4. Something dull or uninteresting.
5. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
6. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or its diameter.
7. Calibre; importance.
8. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.