trouble

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 See also 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Related terms 1.6 External links 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɹʌbl̩/, /tɹʌbəl/
• SAMPA: /"trVbl=/
• enPR: trŭb'l
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

• Rhymes: -ʌbəl

[edit] Noun

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.

[edit] Derived terms

• ask for trouble
• distrouble
• double trouble
• engine trouble
• get into trouble
• in trouble
• teething troubles
• trouble and strife
• troubled
• trouble-free
• troublemaker/trouble maker
• troubler
• The Troubles
• troubleshooter
• troubleshooting
• troublesome
• trouble spot

[edit] Translations

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[edit] See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.

[edit] Verb

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

1. To bother; to annoy.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Related terms

• turbid
• turbulent

[edit] External links

• trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• trouble in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] French

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[edit] Verb

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.