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trou⋅ble

  [truhb-uhl] verb, -bled, -bling, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
2. to put to inconvenience, exertion, pains, or the like: May I trouble you to shut the door?
3. to cause bodily pain, discomfort, or disorder to; afflict: to be troubled by arthritis.
4. to annoy, vex, or bother: Don't trouble her with petty complaints now.
5. to disturb, agitate, or stir up so as to make turbid, as water or wine: A heavy gale troubled the ocean waters.
–verb (used without object)
6. to put oneself to inconvenience, extra effort, or the like.
7. to be distressed or agitated mentally; worry: She always troubled over her son's solitariness.
–noun
8. difficulty, annoyance, or harassment: It would be no trouble at all to advise you.
9. unfortunate or distressing position, circumstance, or occurrence; misfortune: Financial trouble may threaten security.
10. civil disorder, disturbance, or conflict: political trouble in the new republic; labor troubles.
11. a physical disorder, disease, ailment, etc.; ill health: heart trouble; stomach trouble.
12. mental or emotional disturbance or distress; worry: Trouble and woe were her lot in life.
13. an instance of this: some secret trouble weighing on his mind; a mother who shares all her children's troubles.
14. effort, exertion, or pains in doing something; inconvenience endured in accomplishing some action, deed, etc.: The results were worth the trouble it took.
15. an objectionable feature; problem; drawback: The trouble with your proposal is that it would be too costly to implement.
16. something or someone that is a cause or source of disturbance, distress, annoyance, etc.
17. a personal habit or trait that is a disadvantage or a cause of mental distress: His greatest trouble is oversensitivity.
18. the Troubles,
a. the violence and civil war in Ireland, 1920–22.
b. the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, beginning in 1969.
—Idiom
19. in trouble, Informal. pregnant out of wedlock (used as a euphemism).
Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) ME troublen < OF troubler < VL *turbulare, deriv. of *turbulus turbid, back formation from L turbulentus turbulent; (n.) ME < MF, deriv. of troubler

Related forms:
trou⋅bled⋅ly, adverb
trou⋅bled⋅ness, noun
troubler, noun
trou⋅bling⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. concern, upset, confuse. 4. pester, plague, fret, torment, hector, harass, badger. 12. concern, grief, agitation, care, suffering. 14. See care. 15. trial, tribulation, affliction, misfortune.

Antonyms:
1. mollify; delight.
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trou·ble   (trŭb'əl)   
n.  
  1. A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need: tried to console them in their trouble; got in trouble with the police.
  2. A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation: I've had troubles ever since I took this job.
  3. A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty: The new recruits were a trouble to him.
  4. Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome: went to a lot of trouble to find this book.
  5. A condition of pain, disease, or malfunction: heart trouble; car trouble.
    1. Public unrest or disorder.
    2. An instance of this; a disturbance.
    3. Troubles Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.
v.   trou·bled, trou·bling, trou·bles

v.   tr.
  1. To agitate; stir up.
  2. To afflict with pain or discomfort.
  3. To cause emotional strain or anxiety to; worry or distress.
  4. To inconvenience; bother: May I trouble you for directions?
v.   intr.
To take pains: They trouble over every detail.

[Middle English, from Old French, from troubler, to trouble, from Vulgar Latin *turbulāre, alteration (influenced by Latin turbula, small group, diminutive of turba, crowd) of Late Latin turbidāre, from Latin turbidus, confused; see turbid.]
trou'bler n., trou'bling·ly adv.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to cause anxious uneasiness in: His behavior troubles his parents. What problems are ailing you? The bad news distressed us. Her high fever worries the doctor.
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Trouble

Trou"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Troubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling.] [F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. ?, and perhaps to E. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. Turbid.]

1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. --John v. 4.

God looking forth will trouble all his host. --Milton.

2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

Now is my soul troubled. --John xii. 27.

Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. --Shak.

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. --Locke.

3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Syn: To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.

Trouble

Trou"ble\, a. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." --Chaucer.

Trouble

Trou"ble\, n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.]

1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise. --Milton.

Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. --Shak.

2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

3. (Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.]

To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience.

She never took the trouble to close them. --Bryant.

Syn: Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.
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Language Translation for : Trouble
Spanish: problema,
German: die Mühe,
Japanese: 苦労
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trouble  (v.)
c.1225, from O.Fr. trubler (11c.), metathesis of turbler, from V.L. *turbulare, from L.L. turbidare "to trouble, make turbid," from L. turbidus (see turbid). The noun is attested from c.1230; troublesome is attested by 1548. Troubled in ref. to waters, etc., is from 1388. A trouble-shooter (1905) was originally one who works on telegraph or telephone lines. The Troubles in ref. to times of violence and unrest in Ireland is attested from 1880, in ref. to the rebellion of 1641.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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trouble

In addition to the idioms beginning with trouble, also see borrow trouble; fish in troubled waters; go to the trouble; in trouble with; pour oil on troubled waters.

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