Bother \Both"er\, v. i.
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be
troublesome.
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Without bothering about it. --H. James.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bother \Both"er\, n.
One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or
annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble;
as, to be in a bother.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bother \Both"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bothered (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Bothering.] [Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I
vex.]
To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
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Note: The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation
mildly imprecatory.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bother
n 1: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they
had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble,
hassle]
2: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of
unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got
a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend,
he's an infliction" [syn: annoyance, botheration, pain,
infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass]
v 1: take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did
not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't
bother, please" [syn: trouble oneself, trouble, inconvenience
oneself]
2: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor
irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers
me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after
she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, get at, irritate,
rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil]
3: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble
you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience,
disoblige, discommode, incommode]
4: intrude or enter uninvited; "Don't bother the professor
while she is grading term papers"
5: make nervous or agitated; "The mere thought of her bothered
him and made his heart beat faster"
6: make confused or perplexed or puzzled
WordNet (r) 2.0
308 Moby Thesaurus words for "bother":
abash, abrade, abuse a privilege, addle, addle the wits, ado,
afflict, aggravate, aggravation, agitate, agitation, ail, annoy,
annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, bad news, badger, baffle,
bafflement, bait, ball up, be at, be the matter, becloud, bedazzle,
bedevil, bedevilment, befuddle, befuddlement, beset, besetment,
bewilder, bewilderment, bore, botheration, bothersomeness, brawl,
bristle, broil, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burden,
burdening, burn up, burst, bustle, can of worms, chafe, chaos,
charging, chivy, cloud, clumsiness, commotion, complicate matters,
concern, confoundment, confuse, confusion, crashing bore, daze,
dazzle, demand, devil, devilment, difficulty, dilemma,
disaccommodate, disadvantage, discombobulate, discombobulation,
discomfit, discomfiture, discomfort, discommode, discommodity,
discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness,
disconcertion, disconcertment, dismay, disoblige, disorder,
disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disquiet,
distemper, distress, disturb, disturbance, dither, dog, dogging,
donnybrook, donnybrook fair, downer, drag, dustup, effort,
embarrass, embarrassment, embroilment, encroach upon, enigma,
entangle, evil, exaction, exasperate, exasperation, exercise, fash,
feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fit, fix, flap, flummox, flurry,
fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteriness, fog,
foofaraw, fracas, frazzle, free-for-all, freighting, frenzy, fret,
fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuss at, fussiness, get, give concern,
great ado, gripe, harass, harassment, harry, harrying, hassle,
haze, headache, heckle, hector, helter-skelter, hound, hounding,
hubbub, hullabaloo, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus,
imposition, incommode, incommodity, inconsiderateness,
inconvenience, inconveniency, inconvenientness, infliction, irk,
irritant, irritate, irritation, jam, jumble, lather, laying on,
load with care, loading, loading down, maelstrom, make free with,
matter, maze, melee, mess, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest,
molestation, muddle, muddlement, mystery, nag, needle, nettle,
nonplus, nudge, nudzh, nuisance, obtrude upon, obtrusiveness,
overstep, pain, peck of troubles, peeve, pell-mell, perplex,
perplexity, persecute, persecution, perturb, perturbation, pest,
pester, pet, pick on, pickle, pique, plague, plight,
pluck the beard, pother, predicament, presume on, presume upon,
presumptuousness, problem, provoke, pucker, put out,
put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle,
puzzlement, quandary, racket, raise hell, rampage, rattle,
restlessness, riddle, ride, rile, riot, roil, rough-and-tumble,
roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, scrape,
sea of troubles, shindy, shuffle, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat,
swirl, swivet, take a liberty, take liberties, tasking, taxing,
tease, throw into confusion, tizzy, to-do, torment, trial, trouble,
troublesomeness, try the patience, tumult, turmoil, tweak the nose,
twitter, twitteration, unassuredness, unhandiness, unhinge,
unquiet, unsettle, unsettlement, unwarranted demand, unwieldiness,
uproar, upset, vex, vexation, vexatiousness, vortex, weighting,
whirl, worriment, worry
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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