Usually means: Cause annoyance or inconvenience to.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word bother:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bother: Merriam-Webster
  2. bother: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bother: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bother: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bother: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bother, bother: Wordnik
  7. bother: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bother: Wiktionary
  9. bother: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bother: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bother: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bother, bother: Dictionary.com
  13. bother: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bother: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bother (song), Bother: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bother: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bother: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bother: Rhymezone
  19. bother: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bother: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BOTHER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. bother: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bother: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bother: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bother: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bother: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bother: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bother: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bother, bother: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bother: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. bother: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bothered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
verb:  (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
verb:  (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
verb:  To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
noun:  Fuss, ado.
noun:  Trouble, inconvenience.

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