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/trˈəbəlɪŋ/ /trˈəblɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Trouble v. t. (past & past part. troubled; pres. part. troubling)

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. "An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water." "God looking forth will trouble all his host."

To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. "Now is my soul troubled." "Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring." "Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure."

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

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

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Etymology of 'Troubling'

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... B., who came often to the house, was very worried about this family of girls, all very happy at home and contented with their lives. It was quite true we danced and hunted and made a great deal of music, without ever troubling ourselves about the future. The duchesse couldn't understand it, used often to talk to mother very seriously. She came one day with a proposal of marriage—a charming man, a Frenchman, not too young, with a good fortune, a title, and a chateau, had seen ...

— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington

... the first to speak again. That modest distrust of himself, which a man essentially noble and brave is generally the readiest of men to feel, seemed to be troubling him once more—just as it had troubled him when he first found ...

— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins

... time the artist seemed rather "distrait" also, as if a memory were troubling him. He often looked around when any one entered, and his eyes at times rested on Ida's vacant chair. But he soon passed under the spell of Jennie Burton's genial talk, which seemingly glowed with the sunshine that had enveloped her during her ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

... summoned from beneath by the witch of Endor said, "Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up?" It was, indeed, in a dismal abode that they took their long quiet; but then it was in a place "where the wicked ceased from troubling and the weary were ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... and would have asked him several questions which were then troubling me, but he shyly slipped to the ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

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