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boring

 
Adjective boring has 1 sense
  1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome - so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
    Antonym: interesting (indirect, via uninteresting)
Noun boring has 2 senses
  1. drilling, boring - the act of drilling
    --1 is a kind of creating by removal
  2. boring, drilling, oil production - the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
    --2 is a kind of production
Verb bore has 2 senses
  1. bore, tire - cause to be bored
    Antonyms: interest
    Derived form: noun bore1
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to bore Sue
  2. bore, drill - make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"
    --2 is one way to cut
    Derived forms: noun bore3, noun bore4, noun borer1, noun borer2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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