unbore

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ bore.

Verb

unbore (third-person singular simple present unbores, present participle unboring, simple past and past participle unbored)

1. (transitive) To relieve from boredom.
   • 1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens:

     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.

   • 2010, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April, page 106:

     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.

Related terms

• unbored

Anagrams

• Bourne, bourne, unrobe