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bored
[ bawrd ]
adjective
- wearied by dullness or sameness (often followed by with, of, or by ):
This activity will keep bored children entertained on those long summer days.
She's bored with the color of her room and has decided to paint it.
I never seem to get bored of this game.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of bore 1( def ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of bored1
Example Sentences
This coming from a member of the elite Exum Mountain Guides, a grizzled alpinist who has spent decades in the Greater Ranges—the astonishingly epic landscapes that you’d assume would render relatively dinky Western deciduous forests boring.
I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft.
It was boring, and the Gators have never won big while being boring.
Commonwealth said in a press release that they hope to demonstrate a 20 Tesla large-bore magnet in 2021.
Otherwise, they simply settle into conflict-free bores where everybody is nice to each other.
Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.
I was bored, but I grabbed a red Solo cup, filled it with beer, and stayed with my group, chatting with the brothers about Jim.
I was suddenly so bored," he confesses, "I was underworked and overpaid.
"Then I came back to Panama again, sat down at my desk and was bored as hell," he says.
It was full of the sorts of people I used to be when I watched him on MuchMusic—bored, greasy-fingered teenagers.
Toward the close of it were the usual number of toasts in honour of Liszt, to which he responded in rather a bored sort of way.
I'm getting rather bored, you know, Georgie, with the fuss people make in town.
Moreover, she had never so thoroughly enjoyed being a girl, and love-making would have bored her grievously.
The sound holes may have been traced down and even the upper and lower circular holes bored.
Further, excellent as he was as a strategist and tactician, the details of administration bored him.
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