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{
"term": "bother",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "bother",
"heSheIt": "bothers"
},
"pastSimple": "bothered",
"pastParticiple": "bothered",
"ingForm": "bothering"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to spend time and/or energy doing something",
"sensetop": "bother with/about somethingbother to do somethingbother doing something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘Shall I wait?’ ‘No, don't bother’."
},
{
"text": "I don't know why I bother! Nobody ever listens!"
},
{
"text": "If that’s all the thanks I get, I won’t bother in future!"
},
{
"text": "It's not worth bothering with *(= using)* an umbrella—the car's just outside.",
"contextForm": "bother with/about something"
},
{
"text": "I don't know why you bother with that crowd *(= why you spend time with them)*."
},
{
"text": "He doesn’t bother much about his appearance."
},
{
"text": "He didn't even bother to let me know he was coming.",
"contextForm": "bother to do something"
},
{
"text": "He hadn't even bothered to read the crucial documents."
},
{
"text": "Doctors never bothered to check his blood pressure."
},
{
"text": "Why bother asking if you're not really interested?",
"contextForm": "bother doing something"
},
{
"text": "I didn't bother trying to explain my feelings."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to annoy, worry or upset somebody; to cause somebody trouble or pain",
"sensetop": "bother somebodybother somebody with somethingbother somebody that…it bothers somebody to do something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The thing that bothers me is…",
"contextForm": "bother somebody"
},
{
"text": "That sprained ankle is still bothering her *(= hurting)*."
},
{
"text": "She has been bothered by a leg injury."
},
{
"text": "‘I'm sorry he was so rude to you.’ ‘It doesn't bother me.’"
},
{
"text": "I don't want to bother her with my problems at the moment.",
"contextForm": "bother somebody with something"
},
{
"text": "Does it bother you that she earns more than you?",
"contextForm": "bother somebody that…"
},
{
"text": "It bothers me to think of her alone in that big house.",
"contextForm": "it bothers somebody to do something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to interrupt somebody; to talk to somebody when they do not want to talk to you",
"sensetop": "bother somebody",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Stop bothering me when I'm working.",
"contextForm": "bother somebody"
},
{
"text": "Let me know if he bothers you again."
},
{
"text": "**Sorry to bother you**, but there's a call for you on line two."
},
{
"text": "Please stop bothering me with all these questions!"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to think that somebody/something is important",
"labels": "(especially British English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm not bothered about what he thinks."
},
{
"text": "‘Where shall we eat?’ ‘I'm not bothered.’ *(= I don't mind where we go.)*"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you do not want to spend time and/or energy doing something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I should really do some work this weekend but I can't be bothered."
},
{
"text": "All this has happened because you couldn't be bothered to give me the message."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "in a state of worry or stress because you are under too much pressure, have a problem, are trying to hurry, etc.",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to not spend time/effort on something, because it is not important or you are not interested in it",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒðə(r)/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bother__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒðəz/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bothers__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒðəd/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bothered__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒðərɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bothering__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɑːðər/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bother__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɑːðərz/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bothers__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɑːðərd/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bothered__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɑːðərɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/bother/bothering__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 17th cent. (as a noun in the dialect sense ‘noise, chatter’): of Anglo-Irish origin; probably related to Irish bodhaire ‘noise’, bodhraim ‘deafen, annoy’. The verb (originally dialect) meant ‘confuse with noise’ in the early 18th cent."
}