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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Recent Examples of bored
Katia Riddle, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
Many of the commenters were tickled by the cat facing a life-and-death situation and coming away bored.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 31 Dec. 2025
Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Denji is bored out of his mind by most of them, but the last film is good enough to move him to tears.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
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In the Stranger Things classroom scene, Erica's classmates are too cool or too bored to care about wormholes.
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The mathematician John Wallis, recounting the story in 1693, didn’t say whether Rupert wrote a proof or bored a hole through an actual cube.
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tired
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The first turned a fourth-quarter fumble into a 59-yard score when Achane burst through a tired, and seemingly defeated Buffalo defensive front and outsprinted the Bills’ entire secondary to the end zone.—
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But that feels like a tired, outdated characterisation.—
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“Bored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bored. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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