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Bore vs Hurt - What's the difference?

bore | hurt |

As nouns the difference between bore and hurt

is that bore is farmer while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).

As a verb hurt is

to be painful.

As an adjective hurt is

wounded, physically injured.

bore

English

(wikipedia bore)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.

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.
    Antonyms
    * interest
    Synonyms
    * See
    Related terms
    * (to make a hole) borer * (to inspire boredom) bored, boredom, boring

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole drilled or milled through something.
    • the bore of a cannon
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the bores of wind instruments
  • The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
  • A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
  • A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
  • One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
  • Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
  • * Hawthorne
    • It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
  • Calibre; importance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "wave".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bear)

    • Anagrams

    * * * English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    hurt

    English

    Verb

  • To be painful.
    • Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
  • To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
    • If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • To undermine, impede, or damage.
    • This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

    Synonyms

    * wound, injure

    Derived terms

    * wouldn't hurt a fly

    See also

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wounded, physically injured.
  • Pained.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
  • * How to overcome old hurts of the past
  • (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • * 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
    • I have received a hurt .
  • * John Locke
    • The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
  • (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
  • (heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • A husk.

    • Related terms

    * hurty

    References

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