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Definition trouble

Etymology

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbul?re, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

Noun

trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)

1. A distressing or dangerous situation.
2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
3. A violent occurrence or event.
4. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
5. A malfunction.
6. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
7. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

Verb

trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)

1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
2. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
3. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
4. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
5. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

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