Bore vs. Beared — Which is Correct Spelling?

Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging

(of an athlete or racehorse) push another competitor out of the way.

Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour

The hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.

Short for borehole

A person whose talk or behaviour is dull and uninteresting

A steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides or by the constriction of a tide rushing up a narrow estuary.

To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.

To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.

To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill

To proceed or advance steadily or laboriously

To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious

Past tense of bear1.

A hole or passage made by or as if by use of a drill.

A hollow, usually cylindrical chamber or barrel, as of a firearm.

The interior diameter of a hole, tube, or cylinder.

The caliber of a firearm.

A drilling tool.

One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious.

See tidal bore.

(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.

(transitive) To make a hole through something.

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

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

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

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

(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

(obsolete) To fool; to trick.

A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.

The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.

A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.

The place where such a well exists.

One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.

Something dull or uninteresting.

Calibre; importance.

A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.

To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

To befool; to trick.

To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; - said of a horse.

A hole made by boring; a perforation.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Caliber; importance.

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

A person who evokes boredom

A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

Diameter of a tube or gun barrel

A hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

Cause to be bored

Make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool;