Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bore; perforate.
- To be a bore; make one tired.
- Provided with a terebra or borer, as a hymenopterous insect; fashioned into a borer, as an ovipositor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
bore orperforate .
Etymologies
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Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.
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