bother vs distress

bother

verb
  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

distress

verb
  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

noun
  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

How often have the words bother and distress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )