troublenoun/ˈt͡ʃɹʌbəl/

• 1

  A distressing or dangerous situation.

  • He was in trouble when the rain started.
• 2

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

  • The trouble was a leaking brake line.
  • The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
• 3

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

  • Get me on the court and I'm trouble Last week, messed around and got a triple double
  • ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow
• 4

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

  • Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
• 5

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

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

  Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.

  • the troubles in Northern Ireland
  • “I don’t know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I'm paid for it. What I won’t stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
• 7

  Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

  • It’s no trouble for me to edit it.
  • She never took the trouble to close them.
• 8

  Difficulty in doing something.

  • She has trouble eating.

troubleverb/ˈt͡ʃɹʌbəl/

• 1

  archaicTo disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

  • For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:
  • God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt
• 2

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

  • What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
  • Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.
• 3

  In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

  • I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
• 4

  To physically afflict.

  • My bad knee is troubling me.
• 5

  To take pains (to do something); to bother.

  • I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
  • « The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said.
• 6

  To worry; to be anxious.

  • Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.