trouble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: troubles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: troubles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: troubling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: troubled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: troubled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A distressing or dangerous situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was in trouble when the rain started.
gloss: A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The trouble was a leaking brake line.
The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
Lest the fiend […] some new trouble raise.
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.
gloss: A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So shame on me no-ow
gloss: The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor
⁠An inner trouble I behold,
⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
gloss: Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your trouble is that you quit too readily.
The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.
gloss: Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the troubles in Northern Ireland
“I don’t know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I'm paid for it. What I won’t stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
gloss: Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It’s no trouble for me to edit it.
She never took the trouble to close them.
Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.
gloss: Difficulty in doing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She has trouble eating.
gloss: Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.
gloss: A malfunction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My old car has engine trouble.
gloss: Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had some trouble with the law.
gloss: A fault or interruption in a stratum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: I never had schoolin’ but he taught me well / With his smooth southern style / Three months later I’m a gal in trouble / And I haven’t seen him for a while.
gloss: To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:
God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt
gloss: To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.
Take the Boy to you: he ſo troubles me, / ’Tis paſt enduring.
Never trouble your ſelf about thoſe Faults in them, which you know Age will cure.
gloss: In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
gloss: To physically afflict.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: My bad knee is troubling me.
gloss: To take pains (to do something); to bother.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
« The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said.
gloss: To worry; to be anxious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
Related words: turbid
turbulent
Derived words: ask for trouble
a trouble shared is a trouble halved
borrow trouble
distrouble
double trouble
double-trouble
engine trouble
finger trouble
for one's trouble
foul trouble
get into trouble
girl trouble
good trouble
go through the trouble
go to the trouble
in a world of trouble
in trouble
look for trouble
picking quarrels and making trouble
picking quarrels and provoking trouble
picking quarrels and stirring up trouble
shoot trouble
take the trouble
teething trouble
teething troubles
The Troubles
time trouble
trouble and strife
trouble at mill
trouble at the mill
trouble at t'mill
trouble-causer
trouble causer
troubled
troublefree
trouble-free
trouble in paradise
troubleless
trouble light
trouble-maker
troublemaker
trouble maker
troublemaking
troublement
trouble-monger
troubleproof
troubler
troubleshoot
troubleshooter
troubleshooting
troublesome
trouble spot
troublespot
trouble ticket
trouble ticket system
troublous
trubs
women's troubles
overtrouble
trouble the scorers
untroublable
untrouble
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zəhmət
lang: Bulgarian
word: уси́лие
roman: usílie
lang: Bulgarian
word: зор
roman: zor
lang: Catalan
word: molèstia
lang: Finnish
word: vaiva
lang: Finnish
word: vaivannäkö
lang: German
word: Anstrengung
lang: German
word: Bemühung
lang: German
word: Mühe
lang: Hungarian
word: fáradság
lang: Hungarian
word: fáradozás
lang: Hungarian
word: fáradalom
lang: Hungarian
word: utánajárás
lang: Italian
word: problema
lang: Italian
word: impedimento
lang: Italian
word: fastidio
lang: Japanese
word: 厄介
roman: yakkai
lang: Japanese
word: 骨折り
roman: honeori
lang: Latin
word: opera
lang: Latin
word: molimen
lang: Persian
word: زحمت
roman: zahmat
lang: Polish
word: trud
lang: Russian
word: труд
roman: trud
lang: Russian
word: уси́лие
roman: usílije
lang: Russian
word: забо́ты
roman: zabóty
lang: Russian
word: хло́поты
roman: xlópoty
lang: Spanish
word: molestia
lang: Spanish
word: costo
lang: Spanish
word: inconveniente
lang: Tajik
word: заҳмат
roman: zahmat
lang: Turkish
word: efor
lang: Turkish
word: gayret