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n. A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need: tried to console them in their trouble; got in trouble with the police.

n. A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation: I've had troubles ever since I took this job.

n. A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty: The new recruits were a trouble to him.

n. Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome: went to a lot of trouble to find this book.

n. A condition of pain, disease, or malfunction: heart trouble; car trouble.

n. Public unrest or disorder.

n. An instance of this; a disturbance.

n. Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.

v. To agitate; stir up.

v. To afflict with pain or discomfort.

v. To cause emotional strain or anxiety to; worry or distress.

v. To inconvenience; bother: May I trouble you for directions?

verb-intransitive. To take pains: They trouble over every detail.

n. A distressful or dangerous situation.

n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

n. A violent occurrence or event.

n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

n. A malfunction.

n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

n. A fault or interruption in a stratum.

v. To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

v. To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

v. In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.

v. To take pains to do something.

v. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

v. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

v. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology.

adj. Troubled; dark; gloomy.

n. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

n. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

n. A fault or interruption in a stratum.

To stir up; agitate; disturb; put into commotion.

To disturb; interrupt or interfere with.

To disturb in mind; annoy; vex; harass; afflict; distress; worry.

To put to trouble, inconvenience, pains, or exertion of some kind: used conventionally in courteous requests: as, may I trouble you to shut the door?

Synonyms Afflict, Distress, etc. (see afflict); perplex, agitate, plague, pester, badger, disquiet, make uneasy, anxious, or restless.

To become turbid or cloudy.

To take trouble or pains; trouble one's self; worry: as, do not trouble about the matter.

n. Vexation; perplexity; worry; difficulties; trials; affliction.

n. Annoyance; molestation; persecution.

n. Disturbing, annoying, or vexatious circumstance, affair, or state; distress; difficulty.

n. A source or cause of annoyance, perplexity, or distress: as, he is a great trouble to us.

n. Labor; laborious effort: as, it is no trouble.

n. In law, particularly French law, anything causing injury or damage such as is the subject of legal relief.

n. A disease, or a diseased condition; an affection: as, a cancerous trouble.

n. In mining, a small fault. Also called a throw, slide, slip, heave, or check.

Same as troubly.

v. move deeply

v. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

v. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

n. a source of difficulty

v. take the trouble to do something; concern oneself

n. a strong feeling of anxiety

n. an event causing distress or pain

n. an unwanted pregnancy

n. an angry disturbance

v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

n. an effort that is inconvenient

"Now, all that that means is this: I don't know what your trouble is, but, if money can cure it, you _haven't got any trouble_."

troubled    troubles    troubling   

reach    strive    strain    anxiety    maternity    gestation    pregnancy    disturbance    perturbation   

effort    ailment    disturbance    to cast oil on troubled water    to borrow trouble    Collocations of do    have    make    and take   

turbid    turbulent   

distrouble    engine trouble    double trouble    ask for trouble    get into trouble   

harass    vex    perplex    molest    annoy    grieve    afflict    disturb    distress    tease   

Hubble    bubble    double    redouble    rubble    stubble   

distress    pain    difficulty    problem    interest    evil    love    failure    confusion    war