bother
/ˈbɑðɚ/ verb A2- To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. · Would it bother you if I smoked?
- Damn; curse.
- To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern. · I never bother about such trivialities.· I wouldn't bother with an umbrella if I were you.
- To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something). · Why do I even bother to try?
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. · You didn’t even bother to close the door.
He/she/it bothers · Past bothered · Past participle bothered · -ing form bothering
Verb forms
- Base form
- bother
- He/she/it
- bothers
- Past
- bothered
- Past participle
- bothered
- -ing form
- bothering
From the library
“Oh, don’t bother _me_,” said the Duchess; “I never could abide figures!” And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line:
“Bother my white teeth!
“What are you bothering for?
Phillips’s brief reforming energy was over; he didn’t want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.
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