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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Trouble

Troŭb'le, v. t.

verbtransitive

(trŭb'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. TROUBLED; p. pr. & vb. n. TROUBLING.] [Fr. troubler, O. Fr. trobler, trubler, tourbler, from Lat. turbare, to disturb, from turba, a disorder, tumult, crowd.]

Sense 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host. Milton.

To forsake Earth's troubled waters. Byron.

Sense 2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

The boy so troubles me 'Tis past enduring. Shak.

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.

Sense 3. To give occasion for labor to; — used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Sense 4. To sue for a debt. [Colloq. and low.] Johnson.

Synonyms— To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.

Troŭb'le, n.

noun

(trŭb'l), n. [Fr. trouble, O. Fr. troble, truble, from Lat. turbula, a disorderly group, a little crowd of people, dim. of turba. See supra.]

Sense 1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; molestation; annoyance; uneasiness; vexation; affliction; calamity. “Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.” Milton.

Unnatural deeds breed unnatural troubles. Shak.

Sense 2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

Sense 3. (Mining.) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience.

Synonyms—Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery. See AFFLICTION.