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bored

BORD/bɔɹd/UKBAWD/bɔːd/

Often confused with boring

3 meanings of bored

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Feeling restless and a little annoyed because you have nothing to do.

    Like sitting in a long, slow line with nothing to look at.

    The kids got bored during the long car ride.

    I was bored at home, so I called a friend.

    Similaruninterested, restless, listless, weary

    Oppositeinterested, engaged, excited, absorbed

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  2. 2
    verb
    Past tense and past participle of bore. Use this form when the action already happened, or after words like 'have' or 'was'.

    The workers bored a deep hole in the rock.

    The long speech bored everyone at the party.

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  3. 3
    adjective
    Having a hole or holes made through it, often with a drill.

    Water dripped through the bored plank into the bucket below.

    He pushed the rope through the bored block of wood.

    Similarperforated, pierced, holed

bored is a form of bore

bore, verb: To make someone feel bored because something is dull. Full entry

Forms
borebores he/she/itboring -ing formbored past tense, past participle
Spelling
bore → bored: add -d

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Origin

Made from the word "bore" plus "-ed".