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bored

/bɔɹd/ adjective A2
  1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do. · He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.· The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
  2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

Comparative boreder · Superlative boredest

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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 429 · C1
“The corridor through which you have bored your way from the cell you occupy here, extends in the same direction as the outer gallery, does it not?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 149 · C1
I was so bored by the whole proceeding that I made an excuse as soon as I decently could and retired to my bedroom.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 8 · B2
Our next view of him shall be as he descends the steps of his lodging-house immaculately and correctly clothed; calm, assured, handsome—in appearance the typical New York young clubman setting out, slightly bored, to inaugurate the pleasures of the evening.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1

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