Bother: alternatives and connections

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To urge; to persuade; to incite.

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Mixed; confounded.

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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…

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The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

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To retch.

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To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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of Beset

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

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See 1st Frith.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

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Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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of Beset

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of Beset

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.

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Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.

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A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

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A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

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To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

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The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…

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The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.

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To render null and void.

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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