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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unbore en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + bore.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To relieve from boredom.
    • Rose felt right down at her very roots that if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him. Once a bore always a bore — certainly, she thought, to the person originally bored. 2010, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April, page 106:
    • Let you tell her from me and from us, that there is a chapter in Deirdre that unbores God when He gets bored, & remembers who He ought to read. 1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens:

Forms

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unbored Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unbored Tense=Past lexicographic
unboring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unbores Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

unbored