HOW TO PRONOUNCE
bored
/bɔɹd/
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What does bored mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of bore
adjective
- Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- Perforated by a hole or holes.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɔɹd/
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She could sit for hours and watch the sage-hens fly up and the jack-rabbits dart away from the track, without being bored.
And forthwith, beginning in the tone of a man supremely bored, but presently warming a little, he explained his work to me.
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“You had better not take it too hard. If you are bored, you needn’t be afraid to say so—to me at least.”
For it must be remembered that the articles already found have been discovered in the narrow holes bored or dug for wells.