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unbore

unbore

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To relieve from boredom.
    • 1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens
      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.
    • 2010, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April (page 106)
      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.