bother vs harm

bother

noun
  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

  • Fuss, ado. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

verb
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

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

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

harm

noun
  • detriment; misfortune. 

  • physical injury; hurt; damage 

  • That which causes injury, damage, or loss. 

  • emotional or figurative hurt 

verb
  • To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. 

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