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present singular third person unbores · participle present unboring · participle past unbored · past unbored
- transitiveTo relieve from boredom.
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.
1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens1 more example
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.
2010, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April, page 106
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unbore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbore
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