[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trouble \trou"ble\, a.
   troubled; dark; gloomy. obs. "with full trouble cheer."
   --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trouble \trou"ble\, n. f. trouble, of. troble, truble. see
   trouble, v. t.
   1. the state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation;
      uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
      1913 webster

            lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.
                                                  --milton.
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            foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds
            do breed unnatural troubles.          --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. that which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that
      which afflicts.
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   3. mining a fault or interruption in a stratum.
      1913 webster

   to get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger.
      colloq.

   to take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's
      self; to give one's self inconvenience.
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            she never took the trouble to close them. --bryant.
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   syn: affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance;
        molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity;
        misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow;
        misery.
        1913 webster
see also:
trouble to get into trouble to take the trouble 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trouble \trou"ble\, v. t. imp.  p. p. troubled; p. pr.  vb.
   n. troubling. f. troubler, of. trobler, trubler,
   tourbler,fr. assumed ll. turbulare, l. turbare to
   disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder,
   tumult, crowd; akin to gr. ?, and perhaps to e. thorp; cf.
   skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. cf. turbid.
   1. to put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
      1913 webster

            an angel went down at a certain season into the
            pool, and troubled the water.         --john v. 4.
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            god looking forth will trouble all his host.
                                                  --milton.
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   2. to disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to
      grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
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            now is my soul troubled.              --john xii.
                                                  27.
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            take the boy to you; he so troubles me
            't is past enduring.                  --shak.
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            never trouble yourself about those faults which age
            will cure.                            --locke.
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   3. to give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite
      phraseology; as, i will not trouble you to deliver the
      letter.
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   syn: to disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass;
        annoy; tease; vex; molest.
        1913 webster
see also:
troubled troubling turbid 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

trouble
     n 1: a source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed
          the job"; "what's the problem?" syn: problem
     2: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they
        had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" syn: fuss, bother,
         hassle
     3: an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?";
        "heart trouble"
     4: an effort that is inconvenient; "i went to a lot of
        trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty
        walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
        syn: difficulty
     5: a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of
        being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he
        wanted to die and end his troubles" syn: worry
     6: an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"
     v 1: move deeply; "this book upset me"; "a troubling thought"
          syn: disturb, upset
     2: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "sorry to trouble
        you, but..." syn: put out, inconvenience, disoblige,
         discommode, incommode, bother
     3: disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or
        alarmed; "she was rather perturbed by the news that her
        father was seriously ill" syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet,
         cark, distract, disorder
     4: take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "he did
        not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "don't
        bother, please" syn: trouble oneself, bother, inconvenience
        oneself
     5: cause bodily suffering to syn: afflict, ail, pain
see also:
problem fuss bother hassle difficulty worry 
disturb upset put out inconvenience disoblige 
discommode incommode perturb unhinge disquiet 
cark distract disorder trouble oneself inconvenience oneself 
afflict ail pain 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

363 moby thesaurus words for "trouble":
   dutch, abuse a privilege, ado, adverse circumstances, adversity,
   afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggravation, agitate, agitation,
   ail, ailment, alarm, all-overs, angst, anguish, annoy, annoyance,
   anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench,
   anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension,
   apprehensiveness, awkwardness, bad news, be concerned,
   be the matter, beat, beat up, bedevilment, beset, besetment, bind,
   bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blight,
   bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, brawl, broil, brouhaha,
   bug, bummer, burden, burden of care, burdening, burthen, bustle,
   can of worms, cankerworm of care, care, cargo, charge, charging,
   churn, churn up, clumsiness, commotion, complaint,
   complicate matters, concern, concernment, convulse, crashing bore,
   cross, crown of thorns, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, defect,
   demand, destroy, devilment, difficulties, difficulty, disability,
   disaccommodate, disadvantage, disarrange, discombobulate,
   discomfit, discomfort, discommode, discommodity, discompose,
   disconcert, discord, discountenance, disease, disoblige, disorder,
   dispute, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distract,
   distress, disturb, disturbance, dogging, donnybrook,
   donnybrook fair, downer, drag, dread, dustup, effort, elbow grease,
   electrify, embarrassment, embroil, embroilment, encroach upon,
   encumber, encumbrance, endeavor, energy, evil, exaction,
   exasperate, exasperation, excite, exertion, fear, ferment, fight,
   fighting, flurry, fluster, flutter, foofaraw, foreboding,
   forebodingness, fracas, frazzle, free-for-all, freight, freighting,
   fret, fuss, gall, gall and wormwood, give concern, great ado,
   grief, grievance, grieve, hamper, handicap, harass, harassment,
   hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hard pull, hardcase, hardship,
   harm, harry, harrying, hassle, haunt, headache, heckler, hector,
   helter-skelter, hot water, hounding, hubbub, illness, impediment,
   impedimenta, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus,
   imposition, in a mess, in a pickle, in a predicament, in a scrape,
   in trouble, incommode, incommodity, inconsiderateness,
   inconvenience, inconveniency, inconvenientness, infliction,
   inquietude, intrude, irk, irritate, irritation, jar, jolt,
   laying on, load, load with care, loading, loading down, long pull,
   lumber, make free with, malaise, matter, melee, might and main,
   misgiving, molestation, muscle, nag, nerve and sinew,
   nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nettle, nudnik,
   nuisance, obtrude upon, obtrusiveness, on the spot, onus,
   oppression, outbreak, overanxiety, overstep, pack,
   pack of troubles, paddle, pain, pains, peck of troubles, pell-mell,
   penalty, perplex, persecution, perturb, perturbate, perturbation,
   pest, pester, pins and needles, plague, plight, pother,
   predicament, pressure, presume on, presume upon, presumptuousness,
   problem, provoke, psych, pucker, put about, put out,
   put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle, racket,
   rampage, rebellion, revolt, rigor, rile, riot, ripple, rock, roil,
   rough-and-tumble, roughen, roughhouse, row, rowel, ruckus, ruction,
   ruffle, rumple, rumpus, scramble, sea of troubles, shake, shake up,
   shindy, shock, sickness, skirmish, solicitude, sorrow, spook,
   stagger, stew, stir, stir up, strain, stress, stress of life,
   strife, suffering, suspense, swirl, take a liberty, take liberties,
   take pains, tasking, taxing, tension, thank, thorn, throw,
   throw into confusion, to-do, torment, tormenter, trial,
   tribulation, troubles, troublesomeness, try, tumult, turbulence,
   turmoil, uneasiness, unhandiness, unpleasantness, unquietness,
   unrest, unsettle, unwarranted demand, unwieldiness, uprising,
   uproar, upset, vale of tears, vex, vexation, vexatiousness,
   vicissitude, waters of bitterness, weigh down, weight, weighting,
   while, whip, whip up, whisk, white elephant, woe, work up,
   worriment, worry, zeal

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