| not bother sb) (Mandy hates walking home alone at night but it doesn't bother me.) 3 ✺NNOY« to annoy someone by interrupting them when they are trying to do something (Danny, stop bothering me while I'm trying to work! | bother sb about/with sth) (He didn't want to bother her with his financial problems on their honeymoon.) 4 can't/couldn't be bothered BrE used to say that you do not want to do something because you do not have enough energy or interest (I knew I ought to clean the car but I just couldn't be bothered.
| don't/didn't/won't etc bother) ("Do you want me to wait for you?" "No, don't bother.") 2 »WORRY« to make someone feel slightly worried or upset (Being in a crowd really bothers me.) it bothers smb that (It really bothered me that he'd forgotten my birthday. | (not) bother doing something) (I don't know if Sally's coming to the party. īother ~1 v 1 »MAKE AN EFFORT« to make the effort to do something + about/with BrE (I'm too busy to bother about fixing it now.) (not) bother to do sth (Unfortunately he didn't bother to check the exact wording of the contract before he signed it. I just can’t be bothered to look after the house. If you say that you can’t be bothered to do something, you mean that you are not going to do it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy. I don’t know why he bothers me with this kind of rubbish. We are playing a trick on a man who keeps bothering me. If someone bothers you, they talk to you when you want to be left alone or interrupt you when you are busy. I’m not bothered if he has another child. bothered I was bothered about the blister on my hand.VERB: V n, V n, it V n that/wh, V about n, also it V n to-inf It bothered me that boys weren’t interested in me.
If something bothers you, or if you bother about it, it worries, annoys, or upsets you. I usually buy sliced bread–it’s less bother. You can also use bother to refer to an activity which causes this, especially when you would prefer not to do it or get involved with it. VERB: with brd-neg, V to-inf, V -ing, V, V with/about n 2. and he does not bother with a helmet either. Nothing I do makes any difference anyway, so why bother?. Most of the papers didn’t even bother reporting it. Lots of people don’t bother to go through a marriage ceremony these days.
If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy. īother (bothers, bothering, bothered) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
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