Trouble Definition
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English
Most common English words: chance « happened « broken « #642: trouble » die » arm » wrongEtymology
< Middle English troublen < Old French troubler < Medieval Latin *turbulare < Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“crowd”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌbəl
Noun
trouble (plural troubles)
- A distressful or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty contributing to such a situation
- Efforts taken.
- A malfunction, as in "heart trouble".
- A violent occurrence.
Derived terms
- ask for trouble
- distrouble
- double trouble
- engine trouble
- get into trouble
- in trouble
- teething troubles
- trouble and strife
- troubled
- trouble-free
- troublemaker/trouble maker
- troubler
- The Troubles
- troubleshoot
- troubleshooter
- troubleshooting
- troublesome
- trouble spot
See also
- Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.
Verb
to trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)
Translations
to bother; to annoy
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Related terms
External links
- trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- trouble in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French
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Verb
trouble
- First-person singular present indicative of troubler
- Third-person singular present indicative of troubler
- First-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- Third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- Second-person singular imperative of troubler
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