noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s boredom threshold (= whether you do or do not get bored easily )
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She loves challenges and admits she has a low boredom threshold.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
low
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Stallions have an especially low tolerance for boredom , and the best cure is greater variety in work.
sheer
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Often, the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis.
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Misty rain or Sunday lunch, or sheer boredom had dispersed the spectators and Lady Street was deserted.
■ NOUN
threshold
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My boredom threshold is next to nil.
■ VERB
die
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These huge corporations are dying of boredom caused by the inertia of giantism.
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They are dying from pure boredom .
relieve
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Pleasure will also follow from moving from a low level to a higher one: the relieving of boredom .
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He attempts reading it upside down, which temporarily relieves the boredom .
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These inventions not only relieved the boredom but gave escape from pain.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be dying of hunger/thirst/boredom
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Each note pleaded to love a little longer, longer, as though it was dying of hunger.
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I for one am dying of thirst and hot enough to boil over.
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These huge corporations are dying of boredom caused by the inertia of giantism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Boredom is one of the main reasons kids get into trouble.
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Can you imagine the sheer boredom of doing the same job day in, day out for fifty years?
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I get more tired from boredom than from work.
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I sit around all day and eat junk food out of boredom .
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She could no longer stand the boredom of having nothing to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Amazing as it might sound, boredom may play a factor as well.
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But it drives you mad with boredom .
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I couldn't help contrast the boredom with United's exhilarating 4-3 encounter with Liverpool some years back, also in Belfast.
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I get bored, he said, and I run from this terrible boredom that is the opposite of life.
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It is a tribute to our impatience and boredom that we are already asking this question three months premature.
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Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment.
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There was nothing like a small fire to take the boredom right out of things.