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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
“I don’t know why you guys bother making cars,” he said, noting that the bulk of Ford’s profits came from trucks.
Barbara Kepner recalled that the last day she saw her granddaughter alive, the teenager had complained about her braces bothering her.
“They didn’t believe I was a U.S. citizen or bother to check my ID,” Velez said.
"Whenever someone bothers them, they name them as the head of the Cartel de los Soles," he said in August.
Some “ghosted” creators seemed to see humor in demanding free products that were either absurdly expensive to expect or too basic to bother with.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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