Bore vs Pestilence - What's the difference?
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(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
(senseid)To make a hole through something.
* Shakespeare
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 form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
* T. W. Harris
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
* John Gay
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
* Dryden
(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A hole drilled or milled through something.
* Francis Bacon
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
Calibre; importance.
* Shakespeare
A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
(bear)
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
Bore is a related term of pestilence.
As a noun bore
is farmer.As a proper noun pestilence is
the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.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)- He bores me with some trick.
- used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
- I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
- to bore for water or oil
- An insect bores into a tree.
- to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
- short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
- to bore one's way through a crowd
- What bustling crowds I bored .
- This timber does not bore well.
- They take their flight boring to the west.
- (Crabb)
- I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
Antonyms
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* SeeNoun
(en noun)- the bore of a cannon
- the bores of wind instruments
- It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
- Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Compare Icelandic word for "wave".Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Verb
(head)pestilence
English
Noun
(en noun)- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.