Morpheme
Bore
Type
free base
Denotation
pierce, drill, move forward slowly and persistently; cause dullness or annoyance
Etymology
Middle English boren; Old English borian, bor
Evidence
backbore, borable, bore, bored, boree, borefield, borehole, boreless, bores, borescope, boresight, boresome, borewell, boring, boringly, boringness, chokebore, counterbore, microbore, rebore, smoothbore, throughbore, unborable, unbore, unboring, wellbore, windbore
Notes
“dullness” notion is a figurative extension of “move forward slowly and persistently”
