unbore en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + bore.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unbored | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unbored | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unboring | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unbores | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |