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

To devour, consume; eat.

* (rfdate)— Piers Ploughman.

Adam freet of that fruit, And forsook the love of our Lord.

* Wiseman

Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.

(transitive, and, intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.

To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.

A wristband frets on the edges.

To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork.

To chafe or irritate; to worry.

To worry or be anxious.

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To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

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*:Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

* Dryden

He frets , he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple.

to fret the surface of water

To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle.

Rancour frets in the malignant breast.

(music) To press down the string behind a fret.

To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

* Spenser

whose skirt with gold was fretted all about

* Shakespeare

Yon grey lines, / That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.