trouble
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Definitions & Usage
A distressing or dangerous situation.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
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.
Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
Difficulty in doing something.
Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
(slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.
(transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
(transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
(transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
(reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Lest the fiend […] some new trouble raise.”
— 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
“Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.”
— c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
“’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow”
— 2021, Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback, “I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor's Version)”, in Red (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift: