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- pronunciation:
- truh
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- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Grammatical Patterns
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a state or condition of distress, need, or misfortune.
The man was thrashing in the water and was clearly in trouble.Losing his parents and growing up during the war, his life seemed filled with trouble.We knew we were in trouble when the engine started to smoke.- synonyms:
- distress, misery, need, woe
- antonyms:
- comfort
- similar words:
- adversity, affliction, agony, anguish, anxiety, difficulty, fix, jam, mess, pain, predicament, sorrow, straits, stress, suffering, tribulation, want
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| definition 2: |
difficulty that causes distress, pain, or the need for extra effort or assistance.
With his arthritis, he has trouble walking.She's been having trouble with math recently.- synonyms:
- difficulty, problem
- similar words:
- woe
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| definition 3: |
difficulty which causes one to face punishment or negative consequences.
You'll be in so much trouble if you get caught cheating!He was always getting into trouble when he was in school, and his parents were called in frequently.- similar words:
- difficulty
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| definition 4: |
a source of difficulty, distress, or annoyance.
This business venture has been nothing but trouble.He's been trouble ever since he was a teenager.- synonyms:
- adversity, bother, nuisance, sorrow, tribulation, woe
- similar words:
- affliction, annoyance, blow, burden, care, cross, curse, difficulty, distress, grief, hassle, inconvenience, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, pest, problem, rub, trial, worry
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| definition 5: |
effort; exertion.
It'll be no trouble at all to feed your cat while you're away.- synonyms:
- effort, exertion
- similar words:
- bother, burden, difficulty, imposition, inconvenience, labor, length, pains, problem, work
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| definition 6: |
a physical disease or ailment.
He's suffering with kidney trouble.- synonyms:
- ailment, disease
- similar words:
- breakdown, debility, defect, difficulty, disorder, distress, failure, ill, illness, infirmity, malfunction, pain, weakness
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| related words: |
bear, bind, care, demon, discomfort, effort, evil, fire, gall, ill, matter, misadventure, mischief, mishap, travail |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
troubles, troubling, troubled |
| definition 1: |
to distress or worry.
Can't you tell me what is troubling you?I didn't tell her about the accident because I didn't want to trouble her.- synonyms:
- distress, upset, worry
- antonyms:
- comfort
- similar words:
- agitate, ail, alarm, bewilder, bother, concern, depress, disconcert, dismay, disquiet, disturb, eat, exercise, fluster, fret, gnaw, perturb, shake, unsettle, vex
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| definition 2: |
to cause annoyance, bother, or vexation to.
It's bad enough that he doesn't pay attention in class, but he also troubles the other children.He's busy, so don't trouble him right now.- synonyms:
- annoy, bother, bug, irritate, vex
- similar words:
- aggravate, badger, bully, disturb, eat, exasperate, harass, hassle, irk, molest, nag, pester, pick on, plague, terrorize, torment, worry
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| definition 3: |
to cause an imposition or inconvenience.
May I trouble you to get my coat?[verb + smby/smth + infinitive
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I hope I'm not troubling you by asking this favor.- synonyms:
- discommode, inconvenience
- similar words:
- bother, burden, disturb, impose on, interrupt
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| definition 4: |
to afflict with pain or unease.
She has long been troubled by illness.- synonyms:
- afflict, discomfort, plague
- similar words:
- agitate, anguish, bother, cloud, cripple, distress, disturb, nag, oppress, pain, torment, upset
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| definition 5: |
to disturb the calmness of; agitate.
There was a breeze troubling the surface of the water.- synonyms:
- agitate, disturb
- similar words:
- disrupt, fret, perturb, roil, ruffle, shake, stir, unsettle, upset
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| related words: |
accost, affect, afflict, agonize, beset, bug, desolate, disagree, distract, harry, persecute, scourge, try, weight, wrench |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to be vexed, bothered, or distressed.
She's under a lot of stress, and she troubles easily these days.- synonyms:
- worry
- similar words:
- fluster, fret, ruffle, unsettle, upset
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| definition 2: |
to take great effort or pains.
He troubled over the speech for weeks.- synonyms:
- labor, toil
- similar words:
- bother, work, worry
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| definition 3: |
to inconvenience oneself by putting in some amount of effort.
She didn't even trouble to change the sheets for her guests.[verb + infinitive
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- similar words:
- bother
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| related words: |
cloud, suffer |
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| derivation: |
troublingly (adv.) |
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