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Trouble   /trˈəbəl/   Listen
noun
Trouble  n.  
1.
The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity. "Lest the fiend... some new trouble raise." "Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles."
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."
Synonyms: Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.


verb
Trouble  v. t.  (past & past part. troubled; pres. part. troubling)  
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." "God looking forth will trouble all his host."
2.
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."
3.
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.


adjective
Trouble  adj.  Troubled; dark; gloomy. (Obs.) "With full trouble cheer."





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"Trouble" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a kitten, and without a word, too, I 'll be bound. You 're altogether too pretty—that's the trouble with you. I ought to put you in a cage, ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... you'll get it in time," said Migwan soothingly. "I had the same trouble at first, but I'm getting sort ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... as yet unprinted "Fragments," communicated to Walpole by Sir David Dalrymple, who furnished Scotch ballads to Percy. "I am so charmed," wrote Gray, "with the two specimens of Erse poetry, that I cannot help giving you the trouble to inquire a little farther about them; and should wish to see a few lines of the original, that I may form some slight idea of the language, the measures and the rhythm. Is there anything known ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... American savages. Brooke saw at once that no improvement could arise whilst murder was regarded not only as a pleasant amusement, but to some extent as a religious duty. He declared head-hunting a crime punishable by death to the offender. With some trouble and much risk he succeeded to a great extent in effecting a reform. Attacking at the same time another custom of the country—that of piracy—he acted with such vigour, that a class of well-meaning people at home, stimulated to some extent by the private enemies of Brooke, ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 - Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 • Various
... turning pink or green according as he passed before one or other of his bottles. From time to time he threw up his arms, uttering disjointed words: "Unhappy man!.. lost... fatal love... how can we extricate him?" and, in spite of his trouble of mind, accompanying with a lively whistle the bugle "taps" of a dragoon regiment echoing among the plane-trees ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet


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