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boreable

adj

Etymology

From bore + -able.

  1. inherited from *burōną✻
  2. inherited from *borōn✻
  3. inherited from borian — “to pierce”
  4. inherited from boren
  5. suffixed as boreable — “bore + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being bored or drilled into.

    • One commercially available form of this type of bearing has a boreable 0.010 in.-thick lining of acetal copolymer, while another form has a thinner, 0.004 in.-thick, lining of the homopolymer.

  2. Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.

    • Some factory workers are intolerably bored by monotonous tasks; others prefer them. The boreable, on the other hand, develop on occasion the most furious initiative in their efforts to escape boredom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA