BORE Copy link • BORE 1. v. terebrare (with a gimlet or instrument that is turned round): forare (to make a hole through): perforare (quite through): perterebrare. To bore a hole, foramen terebrare or terebra cavare. A boring, terebratio. To get out by boring, exterebrare. To bore, i. e., make hollow by boring, efforare; the trunk of a tree, truncum. To bore one’s way through a crowd, penetrare per turbam: through the snows, eluctari nives or per nives. 2. s. foramen. Caliber, modus; magnitudo, amplitudo. A bore (= a troublesome person), intolerabilis: intolerandus (unbearable): importunus (troublesome, annoying): odiosus (hateful). To be a bore (of a public speaker), odiosum esse in dicendo.