Clues for the word "BORE"
We've had 241 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 508 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on December 09, 2025.
Definition of bore
- imp. - of Bear
- v. t. - To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
- v. t. - To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
- v. t. - To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- v. t. - To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
- v. t. - To befool; to trick.
- v. i. - To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
- v. i. - To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
- v. i. - To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- v. i. - To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
- n. - A hole made by boring; a perforation.
- n. - The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
- n. - The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
- n. - A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
- n. - Caliber; importance.
- n. - A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
- n. - A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
- n. - Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
- - imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
Referring Clues
- Crashing type?
- Brought forth
- Word with crashing or tidal
- Reduce to tears, maybe
- Drill
- Use an auger
- Hardly the life of the party
- Unwanted guest
- Gun stat
- Cause to yawn
- Yielded
- Party pooper
- Put to sleep, maybe
- Yawner
- Schmo
- Tiresome one
- Wearisome one
- Crashing sort
- Make yawn
- Yawn inducer
- Yawn producer
- Ear bender
- Drag
- Bloviator, often
- Barrel statistic
- Drone, e.g.
- Put to sleep
- Inside diameter
- Yawn inducer, perhaps
- Gun barrel diameter
- Cylinder diameter
- One who goes on and on and on...
- Cause of ennui
- Make a tunnel
- Stomached
- Do drilling
- The death of the party?
- Induce ennui
- Dullsville resident
- Dullsville denizen
- Use a shop tool
- Put to sleep, perhaps
- One who's easier to pray for than to visit, according to C. S. Lewis
- Droner, usually
- Tiresome person
- Dullsville resident?
- Bring to tears?
- Ho-hum sort
- Yawn-inducing speaker
- Put to sleep, so to speak
- Gasbag
- See 25-Across
- Yawn-inducing speaker, say
- Windbag
- Real drag
- Tiresome sort
- Was worthy of
- Uninteresting one
- Inside diameter, as of a gun
- Gun-barrel diameter
- Tiresome speaker
- Interest-reduction cause?
- Wet blanket
- Use a drill
- Drill holes
- Yawn producer, perhaps
- Wearisome speaker
- Make weary by being dull
- Dull fellow
- Barrel's inside diameter
- What unexciting drillers do?
- Droner, often
- Drill a hole
- One causing ennui
- Inner diameter
- Hollow out
- Tube's inner diameter
- Reduce to tears, in a way
- Tedious type
- Ho-hum character
- Yawn-inducing speaker, e.g.
- One who talks only about himself, say
- Make a hole
- Leave yawning
- Yawn-inducing type
- Snoozefest
- Produced, as fruit
- Be tedious
- Gun measurement
- Persona Non Grata
- Carried
- Tiresome talker
- Induce yawns
- Dullard
- Inspire ennui
- Cause ennui
- Tedious fellow
- Tedious sort
- Long-winded fellow
- Tedious one
- Unwanted guest, maybe
- Uninteresting storyteller
- Arouse ennui
- Try one's patience
- Pain at a party
- Go full ___ (proceed at maximum speed)
- Shotgun caliber
- Shotgun caliber
- Cause yawns
- Person droning on about tax law, probably
- Barrel measure
- Gun barrel stat
- Gun barrel measurement
- Drill (into)
- "Every hero becomes a ___ at last": Emerson
- Wall of moving water
- Tidal surge
- "Zzz" inducer
- Auger
- Endured
- Dull person
- "A person who talks when you wish him to listen," per Ambrose Bierce
- Sidearm's stat
- Homophone for 55-Down
- Prove tedious
- Uninteresting person
- Tolerated
- Tedious person
- Barrel diameter
- Do some drills?
- Real snoozefest
- Gun barrel measure
- Snoozer
- Dull one
- Droning lecturer
- Unwelcome talker
- Gun measure
- Cause of much yawning
- Yawn-inducing sort
- Droning lecturer, say
- Dreary person
- Dry-as-dust sort
- Monotone lecturer, say
- Drip
- Dull speaker
- Dig
- Pierce
- Tunnel
- Cause yarns
- Causing yawning
- Make holes
- Yawn cause
- Make sleep
- A little comb or electric drill
- Cause one to yawn
- Cause yawning
- He's ennui-inducing
- Cause someone to yawn
- Long-winded one
- Lame show
- What lame band will do
- Grandaddy "Kim You ___ Me to Death"
- Lea Michele "Mama Who ___ Me"
- Fantasia "___ Me (Yawn)"
- Tiresome person - tidal flood
- Carried - drill
- Put up with a dull fellow
- Produced, to make the hole with
- Tedious person - wave - make a hole
- The tedious fellow needs to be carried
- Tunnel of Love run through live
- Tedious drill?
- One who always talks well
- Droning lecture, e.g.
- Uninteresting sort
- The mayor of Dullsville?
- Dull & tedious person
- Put up with a tiresome individual
- Drill may be tolerated
- Put up with a person who talks when you wish him to listen, according to 7
- Drill - pest
- Put up with tedious person
- Put up with tedious character
- Endured weary drill
- Tidal wave drag
- Induce ennui in
- Do tunneling
- Person who tells long, pointless stories
- Droning lecturer, e.g.
- Drill a hole in
- Make a hole in a tattered robe
- A drill bit will do it
- Weary
- Induce yawns from
- Dig into
- Gun barrel feature
- Party dud
- Cause to yawn, maybe
- His tediousness, one put up with
- Tedious talker
- "Feats in mouth" person, per Henry Ford
- What the Severn has, and maybe the Ebro
- Male animal on air is weary
- Use a gimlet
- Cause of some nodding
- Calibre
- One eliciting yawns
- Drill into wood
- The tedious fellow gives you a wave
- Tedious speaker
- ___ someone to tears
- Snoozer of a speaker
- Yawn-evoking person
- Snooze inducer
- Bring to tears, maybe
- Drill for gold and be about to get it
- Sleep-inducing pill?
- Cause extensive yawning
- Move to tears, say?
- Unfortunate neighbor at a dinner party
- Puncture that's a real pain in the neck!
- Make people yawn
- Windbag, say
- Yawn provoker
- Make yawn, perhaps
- Made a deep, round hole
- Fail to excite
- Dull movie, say
- Inside diameter of a pistol
- Make yawn, say
- Fail to interest
- Fail to entertain
- Unexciting person
- Snooze
- Not-very-fun person
- Cause people to yawn
- Real snooze
- Tunnel (through)
- Tunnel (into)
- Drip ... or drill
- Tire through tedium
Last Seen In
- LA Times - December 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 09, 2025
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- Evening Standard Quick - August 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 22, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- LA Times - July 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 09, 2025
- New York Times - July 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 14, 2025
- USA Today - March 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2025
- LA Times - February 25, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 19, 2025
- Family Time - February 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 17, 2024
- New York Times - December 14, 2024
- LA Times - November 30, 2024
- USA Today - November 28, 2024
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