Bore
Hackney
Hackney verb - To use so much as to make less appealing.
Usage example: advertisers have hackneyed the word “revolutionary” so much that it now just means that a product is new
Nearby Word: hackneyed
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Hackney and Bore. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bore/hackney
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