bother
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(verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled |
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Related Words: confuse, consternate, disconcert, flurry, put off |
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(verb) make nervous or agitated; "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster" |
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Related Words: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse |
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(verb) intrude or enter uninvited: "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers" |
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Related Words: intrude, irrupt |
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(verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please" |
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Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
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Related Words: reach, strain, strive |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "a bit of a bother" |
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Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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Related Words: irritant, negative stimulus, thorn |
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(noun) an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" |
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Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
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Related Words: disturbance, perturbation |
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(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
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Synonyms: annoy, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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Related Words: antagonise, antagonize, bedevil, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, crucify, displease, dun, eat into, fret, frustrate, get, grate, harass, harry, hassle, molest, peeve, plague, provoke, rag, rankle, ruffle, tantalize, torment |
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(verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to: "Sorry to trouble you, but..." |
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Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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Related Words: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
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