trouble
Meanings
noun
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A malfunction.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A fault or interruption in a stratum.
verb
- To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
- To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- To physically afflict.
- To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- To worry; to be anxious.
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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”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
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