troubling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: troubling	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
troubling adj causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" Synonym(s): distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
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.