bother

Definition

Examples

I am sorry to bother you, but do you have a minute?

Word Family

Synonyms

• annoycause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
• troublea source of difficulty
• disturbmove deeply

Collocations

• Easy sorry to bother you now
  describing sorry to bother you now (feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone)
• Medium not bother to reply to email
  describing not bother to reply to email (negation of a word or group of words)
• Hard scarcely bother to verify facts
  describing scarcely bother to verify facts (only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - W.B.Yeats)
• Very Hard can't be bothered to lift a finger
  a collocation phrase: can't be bothered to lift a finger