Trouble /(?)/

Trou·ble

Trouble

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Troubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling

  1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
    An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
    — John v. 4.
    God looking forth will trouble all his host.
  2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
    Now is my soul troubled.
    — John xii. 27.
    Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring.
    Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
  3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Trouble

a.
  1. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]

Trouble

n.
  1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
    Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.
    Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.
  2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
  3. A fault or interruption in a stratum. (Mining)
    She never took the trouble to close them.