The difference between Bother and Eat
When used as nouns, bother means fuss, ado, whereas eat means something to be eaten.
When used as verbs, bother means to annoy, to disturb, to irritate, whereas eat means to consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
Bother is also interjection with the meaning: a mild expression of annoyance.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bother and Eat
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Bother as a verb (transitive):
To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
Examples:
"Would it bother you if I smoked?"
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Bother as a verb (intransitive):
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
Examples:
"Why do I even bother to try?"
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Bother as a verb (intransitive):
To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
Examples:
"You didn't even bother to close the door."
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Bother as a noun:
Fuss, ado.
Examples:
"There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book."
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Bother as a noun:
Trouble, inconvenience.
Examples:
"Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother."
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Eat as a verb (ambitransitive):
To ingest; to be ingested. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. To consume a meal. To be eaten.
Examples:
"He’s eating an apple. / Don’t disturb me now; can't you see that I’m eating?"
"What time do we eat this evening?"
"It's a soup that eats like a meal."
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Eat as a verb (transitive):
To use up. To destroy, consume, or use up. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object. To consume money or (other instruents of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
Examples:
"This project is eating up all the money."
"The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out."
"John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report."
"The video game in the corner just ate my quarter."
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Eat as a verb (transitive, informal):
To cause (someone) to worry.
Examples:
"What’s eating you?"
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Eat as a verb (transitive, business):
To take the loss in a transaction.
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Eat as a verb (ambitransitive):
To corrode or erode.
Examples:
"The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal."
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Eat as a verb (transitive, informal):
To perform oral sex. To perform oral sex on someone. To perform oral sex on a body part.
Examples:
"'Eat me!"
"I ate his ass."
"Yeah, eat that dick."
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Eat as a noun (colloquial):
Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.