Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trouble"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Trouble \Trou"ble\, a.
Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] ``With full trouble cheer.''
--Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Trouble \Trou"ble\, n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See
{Trouble}, v. t.]
1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation;
uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.
--Milton.
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do
breed unnatural troubles. --Shak.
2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that
which afflicts.
3. (Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
{To get into trouble}, to get into difficulty or danger.
[Colloq.]
{To take the trouble}, to be at the pains; to exert one's
self; to give one's self inconvenience.
She never took the trouble to close them. --Bryant.
Syn: Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance;
molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity;
misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow;
misery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Trouble \Trou"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Troubled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Troubling}.] [F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler,
tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to
disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder,
tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. ?, and perhaps to E. thorp; cf.
Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. {Turbid}.]
1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
An angel went down at a certain season into the
pool, and troubled the water. --John v. 4.
God looking forth will trouble all his host.
--Milton.
2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to
grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Now is my soul troubled. --John xii.
27.
Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past
enduring. --Shak.
Never trouble yourself about those faults which age
will cure. --Locke.
3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite
phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the
letter.
Syn: To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass;
annoy; tease; vex; molest.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
trouble
n 1: a source of difficulty: "one trouble after another delayed
the job"; "what's the problem?" [syn: {problem}]
2: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they
had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: {fuss}, {bother},
{hassle}]
3: an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?";
"heart trouble"
4: an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of
trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty
walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
[syn: {difficulty}]
5: a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of
being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he
wanted to die and end his troubles" [syn: {worry}]
6: an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"
v 1: move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
[syn: {disturb}, {upset}]
2: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to: "Sorry to trouble
you, but..." [syn: {put out}, {inconvenience}, {disoblige},
{discommode}, {incommode}, {bother}]
3: disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or
alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her
father was seriously ill" [syn: {perturb}, {unhinge}, {disquiet},
{cark}, {distract}, {disorder}]
4: take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did
not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't
bother, please" [syn: {trouble oneself}, {bother}, {inconvenience
oneself}]
5: cause bodily suffering to [syn: {afflict}, {ail}, {pain}]
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