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How to spell bored

Bored is spelled B-O-R-E-D.

What it means: Feeling uninterested or tired of something.

In a sentence: When I finished my homework, I felt bored. ▶

Not to be confused with: board, a different word.

Same family: bore, boring, boredom, unbored, interest. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Bored comes from the verb bore, which in the 18th century came to mean ‘to weary with dullness’ in English high society. The older verb bore originally meant ‘to drill or make a hole,’ and the idea of something ‘boring into you’ was later used metaphorically for something that tires or annoys you.

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