as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
I was completely bored during that speech
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as in drilled
to make a hole or series of holes in
some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard
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as in wearied
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous
the professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
Visitors grew bored until Obaysch, named after an island in the Nile where he was captured, arrived three years later.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
The artist who would eventually become the voice of a generation was then a 19-year-old college dropout bored with the Midwest and intrigued by the folk music coming out of Lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
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Baggage Claim follows Bethany, a bored thirtysomething whose life is going nowhere.
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The artist who would eventually become the voice of a generation was then a 19-year-old college dropout bored with the Midwest and intrigued by the folk music coming out of Lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
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“Bored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bored. Accessed 28 Dec. 2024.
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