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Noun bother has 2 senses
- fuss, trouble, bother, hassle - an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"
--1 is a kind of perturbation, disturbance
- annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass - 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"
--2 is a kind of negative stimulus
--2 has particulars: nuisance; irritant, thorn; plague
Verb bother has 6 senses
- trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself - take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"
--1 is one way to strive, reach, strain
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil - 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"
--2 is one way to displease
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother - to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
--3 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- bother - intrude or enter uninvited; "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers"
--4 is one way to intrude, irrupt
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- bother - make nervous or agitated; "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster"
--5 is one way to agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
Sample sentences:
The bad news will bother him
The performance is likely to bother Sue
- bother - make confused or perplexed or puzzled
--6 is one way to confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off
Sample sentence:
The bad news will bother him
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