Bore

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”

Homographs

Bore