trouble
//ˈtɹʌbəl//
Forms
- Plural
- troubles
- present (v1)
- trouble
- past (v2)
- troubled
- past participle (v3)
- troubled
- present participle
- troubling
- 3rd person singular
- troubles
Definitions
1.A distressing or dangerous situation.
- He was in trouble when the rain started.
2.A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- The trouble was a leaking brake line.
- Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.
- The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
3.A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- You're in trouble now, aren't you?
- The trouble is that you're too young.
- You'd get in trouble if you did that.
4.The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- You're in trouble now, aren't you?
- The trouble is that you're too young.
- You'd get in trouble if you did that.
1.To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.
2.In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
3.To physically afflict.
- My bad knee is troubling me.
4.To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #990
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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Etymology
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”).