Word Finder - boring

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To inspire boredom in somebody.

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To make a hole through something.

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To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

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An insect bores into a tree.

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To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.

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to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole

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To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

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to bore one's way through a crowd

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

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This timber does not bore well.

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To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

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

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To fool; to trick.

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A pit or hole which has been bored.

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Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.

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Any organism that bores into a hard surface

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Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest.

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What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.

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Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.

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boring equipment

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Capable of penetrating; piercing.

I must be boring you to death.

She didn't stay long in the boring room.

Each trip was more boring than the last.

Those blue eyes were boring into her soul, searching for heaven only knew what.

One day I'm a boring financial planner, and the next day, I can't go out in sunlight and I see the future.

She could feel his eyes boring into her as she spoke.

I trudged through a boring day, knowing I'd return to an empty apartment as Betsy was off to Los Angeles for the entire week.

They were all at their boring 9-5 jobs now.

Some things never grew boring no matter how often they were repeated.

For such buried deposits boring is cheaper than sinking.

This seems to be due to the dust abundantly produced in mining operations, and especially by machine drills when boring " dry " (rising) blast holes.

His condo was as Bianca had said, boring with no color and no character.

She was boring him to death, but he was too polite to drop her off and run.

In order to see whether the heat came out of the chips he compared the capacity for heat of the chips abraded by the boring bar with that of an equal quantity of the metal cut from the block by a fine saw, and obtained the same result in the two cases, from which he concluded that "the heat produced could not possibly have been furnished at the expense of the latent heat of the metallic chips."

Boring was effected with the sand-drill; the hardest rocks may have been pierced with specially hard sand.

From 1880 to 1885 the first brines were obtained in Wyoming and Genesee counties by boring deep wells into beds of rock salt, and in 1885 the mining of the extensive deposits of rock salt in Livingston county was begun.

We were finding make work at the office increasingly boring but I suspected our absence would produce unwanted curiosity.

The principle of proving a mineral field by boring is illustrated by fig.

Small accent lamps can turn a room from dull and boring to bright and beautiful.

The system usually adopted is a modification of the Canadian system already described, the boring rods being, however, of iron instead of wood, but the cable system has also to some extent been used.

It's not hard to turn a boring, sterile-looking dorm room into a comfortable and stylish living space.

However, simple doesn't have to mean boring.

Some people find it a truly relaxing fun pastime while others find it totally boring.

That's all it takes to turn boring into fabulous.

This helps tie in the walls without being bland or boring.

Driving in and of itself is a very boring task, particularly long drives.

The cut scenes are incomprehensible, long, and painfully boring.

There are 16 missions you have to get through and most of them are just plain boring.

You certainly want to have a relaxing ambiance, but that doesn't mean it needs to be boring.

Long hair doesn't have to mean boring.

Weddings can often be boring for the guests.

Watches for children needn't be dull and boring!

In extreme cases the results from boring are likely to be untrustworthy and misleading unless the work is done on such a scale that the cost becomes prohibitory.

The legislation against Baptists (about 1644-1678) and the persecution of the Quakers (especially 1656-1662) partook of the brutality of the time, including scourging, boring of tongues, cutting of ears and in rare cases capital punishment.

By replacing the stock furniture, which is generally very bland and boring, with pieces that you select, the dorm room feels more personal and makes you feel more at home.

A commitment to green living definitely doesn't mean being boring; on the contrary, a Tesla car is at the cutting edge of both environmentalism and style.

Going green and leading a more environmentally friendly lifestyle needn't be dull and boring.

It didn't matter whether the house's decor was modern, colonial, or traditional, they all sported boring, white (or sometimes unpainted) doors.

Before you get to the good stuff in any decorating or interior design project, you have to get some of the boring basics out of the way.

This makes for a much more meaningful layout than static shots of the cooking process or boring images of the finished product sitting alone on a plate.

Vanilla/vanilla is one of the most popular wedding cake flavor combinations, but it's a tad on the boring side.

Alcoholics fear that life without drinking will be awful, grim, boring, dull, or tedious.

Boys raincoats have come a long way since the days of boring yellow slickers and black boots.

Many popular children's clothing manufacturers offer a wide variety of stylish and practical selections that help keep boys dry and comfortable without being boring.

Boys boxers have come a long way since the days of boring solid colored, scratchy shorts.

While there are plenty of plain white girls' snow pants, some of the white pants also have fashionable designs that will keep a girl from blending in too much with the boring old snow.

A plain black tuxedo vest can come across as boring when paired with a black tuxedo on a small child, but a paisley vest, or a brightly colored vest, can liven up the look.

Wearing tee shirts gets boring and long-sleeve shirts can feel hot and miserable.

Men's raincoat styles can be fashionable and appealing, rather than boring.

The Oko Box - this store sells a range of high fashion items which prove that organic and environmentally friendly clothing needn't be boring!