bored
Because it is a word with a single syllable, bored is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofbored
- To inspire boredom in somebody.
- To make a hole through something.
- To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
Example: "An insect bores into a tree."
- To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
Example: "to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole"
- To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
Example: "to bore one's way through a crowd"
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
Example: "This timber does not bore well."
- To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
- To fool; to trick.
- Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do
- Uninterested, without attention
Example: "The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem"
- Perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
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