trouble.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
Meaning & usage
A distressing or dangerous situation.
He was in trouble when the rain started.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
The trouble was a leaking brake line.
The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
Your trouble is that you quit too readily.
The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.
Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
the troubles in Northern Ireland
Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
It’s no trouble for me to edit it.
Difficulty in doing something.
She has trouble eating.
Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.
A malfunction.
My old car has engine trouble.
Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
He had some trouble with the law.
A fault or interruption in a stratum.
Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.
Where this word comes from
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.
To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
To physically afflict.
My bad knee is troubling me.
To take pains (to do something); to bother.
I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
To worry; to be anxious.
Where this word comes from
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.
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