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| English Dictionary: trouble |
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DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for trouble |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- trouble
- n
- a source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed
the job"; "what's the problem?"
Synonym(s): trouble, problem
- an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"
Synonym(s): fuss, trouble, bother, hassle
- an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble"
- an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
Synonym(s): trouble, difficulty
- a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles"
Synonym(s): worry, trouble
- an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"
- v
- move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
Synonym(s): disturb, upset, trouble
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
Synonym(s): trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
Synonym(s): perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"
Synonym(s): trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
Synonym(s): trouble, ail, pain
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Trouble \Trou"ble\, a.
Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] [bd]With full trouble
cheer.[b8] --Chaucer.
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