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unbore

unbore verb: to relieve from boredom.

Verb

unbore (third-person singular simple present unbores, present participle unboring, simple past and past participle unbored)

  1. (transitive) To relieve from boredom.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of unbore

third-person singular presentunbores
present participleunboring
past participleunbored
pastunbored

Origin of unbore

From un- + bore.

Questions about unbore

What does unbore mean?
Unbore means to relieve from boredom.
What part of speech is unbore?
Unbore is a verb.
What is the past tense of unbore?
The past tense of unbore is unbored.

Words near unbore in the dictionary

  1. unboraxed
  2. unborder
  3. unbordered
  4. unbordering
  5. unborders
  6. unbore
  7. unboreable
  8. unbored
  9. unbores
  10. unboring
  11. unborn

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