Difference between Irritate and Bother

IRRITATE vs BOTHER: NOUN

Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
An angry disturbance
Trouble, inconvenience.
Fuss, ado.
One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble.
A cause or state of disturbance.
Trouble; vexation; plague: as, what a bother it is!
Blarney; humbug; palaver.

Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
To introduce irritability.
To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
Excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
Excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
Excite to an abnormal condition, of chafe or inflame

To make sore or inflamed.
To cause (someone) to feel impatient or angry; annoy: : annoy.
To cause a physiological response to a stimulus in (a cell, body tissue, or organism).
To be a cause of impatience or anger.

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
To take trouble; concern oneself.
To take the trouble (to do something); concern oneself with (accomplishing something).
To give discomfort or pain to.
To intrude on without warrant or invitation; disturb.
To make agitated or perplexed; upset.
To cause to be irritated, especially by repeated acts; trouble or annoy: : annoy.

To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex.
To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret
To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.

Synonyms Provoke, Incense, etc. (see exasperate); fret, chafe, nettle, sting, annoy, gall, inflame, excite, anger, enrage.
To give greater force or energy to; excite.
To excite to automatic action by external agency, as organic tissue; produce motion, contraction, or inflammation in by stimulation: as, to irritate the skin by chafing or the nerves by teasing.
To excite to resentment or anger; annoy; vex; exasperate: as, to be irritated by an officious or a tedious person.
To render null and void.
Cause annoyance in
Excited; exasperated; intensified.

To bewilder; confuse.
To give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry.
[Used in the imperative as an expression of impatience, or as a mild sort of execration.
Synonyms Pester, Worry, etc. See tease, v. t.
To trouble one's self; make many words or much ado: as, don't bother about that.
Concern oneself
Take the trouble to do something
A source of unhappiness
Cause annoyance in

Pique, Cause, Miff, Irk, Get at, Gravel, Get to, Nettle, Devil, Nark, Rag, Vex, Bother, Rile, Annoy

Devil, Pain, Rag, Nuisance, Nark, Inconvenience, Botheration, Annoyance, Hassle, Trouble, Rile, Fuss, Vex, Irritate, Annoy

Roil, Chafe, Cause, Miff, Irk, Get at, Gravel, Get to, Nettle, Devil, Nark, Rag, Vex, Rile, Annoy

Get to, Nettle, Put out, Devil, Pain, Rag, Nuisance, Nark, Hassle, Trouble, Rile, Fuss, Vex, Irritate, Annoy

Everything just works with no fuss or bother.
Sounds like too much work to bother with.
You can fight popular perception but why bother.
Why the hell did I bother to vote?
Should I bother with the online refund request?
So why did I bother posting this then?
Bother sending and should i bother sending and talk to do non target university have a copy to your university.
The scratchy foods that bother your gut might be a little different than what bother someone else, but here are some common culprits.
Different people have different asthma triggers, so what bother one may not bother another.
What will bother one insurance company may not bother another, he says.