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say it: bawr
bore is a noun and verb meaning "a person who evokes boredom". It is pronounced /ˈbɔɹ/ — bawr. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a person who evokes boredom
a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
mining
make a hole, especially 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”
“carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bore come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.