To bother is to bother or bothersome. When you say that something is bothering you, you mean that it is making you anxious or uncomfortable.
The noise was bothering her so she asked the speaker to turn it down.
The noise was bothering me so I asked the speaker to turn it down.
verb
To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
verb
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
verb
To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
noun
The action of troubling or disturbing someone
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It was the meanness that bothered me.
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It is the imprecision that bothers me most.
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The communists don't bother with such niceties.
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The derision does not bother me.
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The title for the college bothers me.
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I'm bothered by the sentiment of the section on the withdrawal.
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If citations to authorities are unavailing, then why bother
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In the end they didn't even bother the boycott the election.
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Or are you just going to format the floppy and not bother with the chord
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Other guppies, though, cannot be bothered with all this flummery.