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Related / Similar Words: drilling, oil production, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome

Definition:

the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum;

the act of drilling;

so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn''t capture their attention";;

Derivational Morphology: bore, drill

Language Translations:
Catalan: avorrit		Chinese: 乏味
Dutch: saai		Finnish: tylsä
French: ennuyeux		German: langweilig
Greek: τρυπώντας		Hebrew: משעמם
Ido: enoyiganta		Italian: noioso
Japanese: つまんない		Korean: 무료한
Norwegian: kjedelig		Portuguese: entediante
Russian: сверлильный		Slovene: dolgočasen
Spanish: aburrido		Swedish: tråkig
Turkish: sıkıcı

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