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{
"term": "bored",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "feeling tired and impatient because you have lost interest in somebody/something or because you have nothing to do",
"sensetop": "bored with/of somebody/somethingbored with/of doing something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was a bored expression on her face."
},
{
"text": "She plays the role of a bored executive."
},
{
"text": "He was rather bored with his life in a small town."
},
{
"text": "The children quickly **got bored** with staying indoors.",
"contextForm": "bored with/of somebody/somethingbored with/of doing something"
},
{
"text": "He seemed faintly bored by the whole process."
},
{
"text": "She was bored with their conversation."
},
{
"text": "Some children get bored very quickly."
},
{
"text": "bored at the prospect of going shopping"
},
{
"text": "The others began to look bored."
},
{
"text": "She enchants an otherwise bored audience."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["at", "by", "with"],
"phrases": ["bored rigid", "bored silly", "bored stiff"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be extremely frightened or bored",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Feelings"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "extremely bored",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I remember being bored stiff during my entire time at school."
},
{
"text": "She enjoys it. Everyone else is bored silly."
},
{
"text": "He walked along, bored out of his mind."
},
{
"text": "She was alone all day and bored to death."
},
{
"text": "You must be bored stiff stuck at home all day."
},
{
"text": "Personally, I was bored to death."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bɔːd/",
"audio": "bo/bored/bored__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bɔːrd/",
"audio": "bo/bored/bored__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}