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bored

verb
/bɔːd/UK/bɔɹd/US/bo(ː)ɹd/

Etymology

From bore + -ed.

  1. inherited from *burōną✻
  2. inherited from *borōn✻
  3. inherited from borian — “to pierce”
  4. inherited from boren
  5. formed as bored — “bore + -ed”

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of bore

  2. Suffering from boredom

    Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

    • He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.
    • The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
    • [Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.

  3. Perforated by a hole or holes.

The neighborhood

Derived

be bored, boredly, boredness, smoothbored, unbored, bored out of one's brains, bored out of one's mind, bored out of one's tree, bored stiff, bored shitless, bored to tears

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bored. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01bored02perforated03holes04hole05fissure06groove07tire

A definitional loop anchored at bored. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at bored

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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