If you’re trying to find the right entry for “Bothered”, these suggestions have been drawn from other puzzles where the clue appeared in similar form and led to usable answers.
Answers:
- ATE
- ATEAT
- IRKED
- INASTEW
- DISTURBED
- TROUBLED
- UPSET
- HASSLED
- HARASSED
- WORRIED
- VEXED
- PESTERED
- INASPOT
Synonyms and Definitions
ATE
- Synonyms: consume, corrode, deplete, eat, eat on, eat up, exhaust, feed, run through, rust, use up, wipe out
IRKED
- Synonyms: gall, irk
- Definition: Annoy or bother
DISTURBED
- Synonyms: agitate, brainsick, commove, crazy, demented, disquieted, distressed, disturb, interrupt, mad, maladjusted, raise up, shake up, sick, stir up, touch, trouble, unbalanced, unhinged, upset, vex, worried
TROUBLED
- Synonyms: ail, bother, cark, discommode, disoblige, disorder, disquiet, disruptive, distract, incommode, inconvenience, inconvenience oneself, pain, perturb, put out, riotous, trouble oneself, tumultuous, turbulent, unhinge
UPSET
- Synonyms: bowl over, broken, confused, derangement, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disordered, disturbance, disturbed, knock over, overthrow, overturn, overturned, perturbation, swage, tip over, tump over, turn over, turnover, untune, upturned
- Definition: a distressed and anxious state of mind
HASSLED
- Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke
HARASSED
- Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed
WORRIED
- Synonyms: apprehensive, care, concern, interest, occupy, worry
VEXED
- Synonyms: amaze, annoy, baffle, beat, bewilder, chafe, devil, dumbfound, flummox, get, get at, get to, gravel, harassed, irritate, mystify, nark, nettle, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, rag, rile, stick, stupefy
- Definition: Provoke irritation in; disrupt, particularly through small annoyances.
PESTERED
- Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester, tease