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Bother vs Scourge - What's the difference?

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Bother is a related term of scourge.


As verbs the difference between bother and scourge

is that bother is to annoy, to disturb, to irritate while scourge is to strike with a scourge , to flog.

As nouns the difference between bother and scourge

is that bother is fuss, ado while scourge is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

As an interjection bother

is a mild expression of annoyance.

bother

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
    • Would it bother you if I smoked?
  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
    • Why do I even bother to try?
  • * Henry James
    • without bothering about it
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
    • You didn't even bother to close the door.

    Synonyms

    * (annoy, disturb ): annoy, disturb, irritate, put out, vex * See also

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive'' or the ''gerund (-ing) . See

    Noun

  • Fuss, ado.
    • There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
  • * '>citation
  • Trouble, inconvenience.
    • Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother .

    Interjection

  • A mild expression of annoyance.
  • * 1926 , A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh'', Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ''...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place :
    • "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
    "Oh, bother !" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
    "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother !"

    Synonyms

    * blast, dang (US ), darn

    Related terms

    * be bothered * bothered * bothersome English control verbs

    scourge

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
  • A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • A whip, often of leather.
  • * Chapman
    • Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.

    Verb

  • To strike with a scourge , to flog.

    • See also

    * (pedia)