0 present participle of bother --
1 to make the effort to do something: --
You won't get any credit for doing it, so why bother?
[ + -ing verb or + to infinitive ] You'd have found it if you'd bothered looking/to look.
[ + -ing verb ] Don't bother making the bed - I'll do it later.
You could have phoned us but you just didn't bother.
[ + to infinitive ] He hasn't even bothered to write.
2 to make someone feel worried or upset: --
[ + that ] It bothers me that he doesn't seem to notice.
I don't care if he doesn't come - it doesn't bother me.
Living on my own has never bothered me.
Does it bother you that he's out so much of the time?
In this less pressured environment you are more likely to get the patient explaining what is bothering them or asking the right questions.
The will to power rather than reason was to determine humanity's future, to the extent that humanity had any future worth bothering with.
Nevertheless, this behavior was perceived as invalidating, and induced guilt in the children for bothering a suffering parent with inconsequential concerns.
The money feels to him too much like a favor, bothering him more than the mortgage that doesn't put him under obligation to a sister-in-law.
However, the lower incidence of other word class members does not mean that adults were not bothering to introduce them.
If so, one should see it at the most junior levels, with more new faces not bothering to secure a clear factional affiliation.
Why bothering about talking to a man if everyone already knows the content of his thought?
The reader will wonder why the author is bothering, and doubts about the weaker arguments can easily turn into doubts about the conclusion.
