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botherating

botherating is the present participle and gerund of botherate.

Meaning of botherate

Verb

botherate (third-person singular simple present botherates, present participle botherating, simple past and past participle botherated)

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard, transitive) To bother.
    • Stop botherating him, I say. He's got too much to worry about already.2014, M. R. C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Foskett

Questions about botherating

What is botherating the present participle and gerund of?
Botherating is the present participle and gerund of botherate.

Words near botherating in the dictionary

  1. botherance
  2. botherances
  3. botherate
  4. botherated
  5. botherates
  6. botherating
  7. botheration
  8. botherations
  9. botherder
  10. botherders
  11. bothered

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