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bother
noun as in trouble, inconvenience
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Strong matches
ado, annoyance, anxiety, bellyache, botheration, bustle, care, concern, difficulty, distress, drag, exasperation, flurry, fuss, headache, irritant, irritation, molestation, nudge, nuisance, pain, perplexity, pest, plague, pother, pressure, problem, strain, to-do, trial, trouble, vexation, worriment, worry
Weak match
verb as in harass, annoy; give trouble
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aggravate, alarm, bore, disgust, dismay, disturb, embarrass, exacerbate, hinder, hurt, irk, irritate, nag, perplex, perturb, plague, scare, torment, trouble, upset, worry
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afflict, agitate, badger, bedevil, browbeat, concern, cross, discommode, disconcert, displease, disquiet, distress, eat, exasperate, goad, grieve, harry, impede, inconvenience, insult, molest, needle, nudge, pain, pester, provoke, pursue, ride, spite, tantalize, taunt, tease, vex
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verb as in take the trouble
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Example Sentences
Only problem, it was the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama - in the United States - whose laid-back mayor said: "I thought it was flattering. And please continue to use the skyline - it doesn't bother me."
The Guadalajara fighter says he is not bothered about the naysayers.
“And the cases that people litigate . . . they only bother to litigate the things that they’re really, truly disagreeing about that they feel passionately about. And then those are the cases that we see.”
"You're more likely to put it out on the kerbside than you are to bother to go down to your corner shop and give it back."
"I was second last year, it didn't bother me that much. I just focused on this year - putting on the best performance I could and just use my strengths - and it paid off."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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