trouble

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[edit] English

Most common English words: chance « happened « broken « #642: trouble » die » arm » wrong

[edit] Etymology

< Middle English troublen < Old French troubler < Mediaeval Latin *turbulare < Latin turbula (disorderly group, a little crowd or people), diminutive of turba (crowd).

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Singular
trouble

Plural
troubles

trouble (plural troubles)

  1. A distressful or dangerous situation.
  2. A difficulty contributing to such a situation
  3. Efforts taken.
  4. A malfunction, as in "heart trouble".
  5. A violent occurrence.

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to trouble

Third person singular
troubles

Simple past
troubled

Past participle
troubled

Present participle
troubling

to trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)

  1. To bother; to annoy.

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trouble

  1. First-person singular present indicative of troubler.
  2. Third-person singular present indicative of troubler.
  3. First-person singular present subjunctive of troubler.
  4. Third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler.
  5. Second-person singular imperative of troubler.