Verb

(bor)

(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.

* Shakespeare

He bores me with some trick.

* Carlyle

used to come and bore me at rare intervals.

(senseid)To make a hole through something.

* Shakespeare

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .

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

to bore for water or oil

An insect bores into a tree.

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

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

* T. W. Harris

short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood

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

to bore one's way through a crowd

* John Gay

What bustling crowds I bored .

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

This timber does not bore well.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

* Dryden

They take their flight boring to the west.

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

(Crabb)

(obsolete) To fool; to trick.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.

Verb

(head)

(bear)

Verb

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(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .

(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .

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To thrust; to poke.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

Verb

(slang) To understand or show interest in.

You dig ?

(slang) To appreciate, or like.

Baby, I dig you.