trouble

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//ˈtɹʌb.əl//(Canada, General American)

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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections

Key Verb Forms & Inflections
Third-person singular (he/she/it):troubles
Present Participle (-ing):troubling
Past Participle:troubled
Simple Past:troubled

Definitions & Usage

noun
#1

A distressing or dangerous situation.

Example: He was in trouble when the rain started.
noun
#2

A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

Example: The trouble was a leaking brake line.
Example: The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
Translations:[DE]Schwierigkeit
noun
#3

A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.

noun
#4

The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.

noun
#5

Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.

Example: Your trouble is that you quit too readily.
Example: The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.
noun
#6

Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.

Example: the troubles in Northern Ireland
noun
#7

Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

Example: It’s no trouble for me to edit it.
noun
#8

Difficulty in doing something.

Example: She has trouble eating.
Translations:[DE]Schwierigkeit
noun
#9

Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.

Example: He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.
noun
#10

A malfunction.

Example: My old car has engine trouble.
Translations:[DE]Störung
noun
#11

Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

Example: He had some trouble with the law.
noun
#12

(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

noun
#13

(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.

noun
#14

(slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.

verb
#15

(transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

verb
#16

(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

Example: What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
verb
#17

(transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

Example: I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
verb
#18

(transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.

Example: My bad knee is troubling me.
verb
#19

(reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.

Example: I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
verb
#20

(intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

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:

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