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BORED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
Example:
the bored gaze of the successful film star
Synonyms:
blase; bored
Classified under:
Similar:
uninterested (not having or showing interest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tired of the world
Example:
strolled through the museum with a bored air
Synonyms:
bored; world-weary
Classified under:
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bore
Context examples:
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My function is to amuse, and so long as I amuse all goes well; but let him become bored, or let him have one of his black moods come upon him, and at once I am relegated from cabin table to galley, while, at the same time, I am fortunate to escape with my life and a whole body.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it: and the next day the waggoners arrived with it, but not in a very good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was dragged along for above half an English mile; but, the ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I expected.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He starved us when he had the sole superintendence of the provision department, before the committee was appointed; and he bored us with long lectures once a week, and with evening readings from books of his own inditing, about sudden deaths and judgments, which made us afraid to go to bed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The exalted beings he met there, and to whom he had looked up but a short time before, now bored him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Here is the stone; the stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other characteristics with which I have bored you.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To listen to conversation about such things would mean to be bored, wherefore the idlers decree that such things are shop and must not be talked about.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They were good and kindly people, he forced himself to acknowledge, and in the moment of acknowledgment he qualified—good and kindly like all the bourgeoisie, with all the psychological cramp and intellectual futility of their kind, they bored him when they talked with him, their little superficial minds were so filled with emptiness; while the boisterous high spirits and the excessive energy of the younger people shocked him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He remembered it was at this table, at which he now sneered and was so often bored, that he had first eaten with civilized beings in what he had imagined was an atmosphere of high culture and refinement.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We'd be bored to death.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
