Synonyms of the word

bore

• v. (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
• v. (transitive) To make a hole through something.
• v. (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the…
• v. (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
• v. (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage…
• v. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
• v. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
• v. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
• v. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
• n. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
• n. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its…
• n. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
• n. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
• n. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
• n. Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
• n. Calibre; importance.
• n. A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
• v. simple past tense of bear.

aegir

• n. Alternative spelling of eagre.

caliber

• n. American standard spelling of calibre.

calibre

• n. Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.
• n. The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.
• n. A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other…
• n. Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined…
• n. (figuratively) Relative size, importance, magnitude.
• n. (figuratively) Capacity or compass of mind.
• n. (dated) Degree of importance or station in society.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

diam

• n. apocopic form of diameter.
• n. apocopic form of diamond.

diameter

• n. (geometry) Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the…
• n. (geometry) The length of such a line.
• n. (geometry) The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space.
• n. (graph theory) The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

drill

• v. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
• v. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
• v. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
• v. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
• v. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level.
• v. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
• v. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
• v. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
• v. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
• n. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into…
• n. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
• n. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds…
• n. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
• n. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
• n. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation…
• n. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
• n. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that…
• n. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but…
• n. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

dullard

• n. A stupid person; a fool.

eager

• adj. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
• adj. (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
• adj. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
• adj. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
• adj. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring…
• n. Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).

eagre

• adj. Obsolete form of eager.
• n. a tidal bore.

excavation

• n. (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part…
• n. (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
• n. (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
• n. (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
• n. (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
• n. (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

gauge

• n. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
• n. An act of measuring.
• n. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things.
• n. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
• n. (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
• n. (mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector…
• n. (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
• n. (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
• n. (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
• n. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
• n. That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of…
• n. (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be…
• n. (slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat…
• n. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
• v. (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
• v. (transitive) To estimate.
• v. (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
• v. (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
• v. (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
• v. (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

tire

• v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
• v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
• v. (transitive) To bore.
• n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
• n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
• n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
• n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
• n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
• n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
• n. A tier, row, or rank.