trouble

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need: tried to console them in their trouble; got in trouble with the police.
2. n. A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation: I've had troubles ever since I took this job.
3. n. A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty: The new recruits were a trouble to him.
4. n. Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome: went to a lot of trouble to find this book.
5. n. A condition of pain, disease, or malfunction: heart trouble; car trouble.
6. n. Public unrest or disorder.
7. n. An instance of this; a disturbance.
8. n. Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.
9. v. To agitate; stir up.
10. v. To afflict with pain or discomfort.
11. v. To cause emotional strain or anxiety to; worry or distress.
12. v. To inconvenience; bother: May I trouble you for directions?
13. v. To take pains: They trouble over every detail.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To stir up; agitate; disturb; put into commotion.
2. To disturb; interrupt or interfere with.
3. To disturb in mind; annoy; vex; harass; afflict; distress; worry.
4. To put to trouble, inconvenience, pains, or exertion of some kind: used conventionally in courteous requests: as, may I trouble you to shut the door?
5. Synonyms Afflict, Distress, etc. (see afflict); perplex, agitate, plague, pester, badger, disquiet, make uneasy, anxious, or restless.
6. To become turbid or cloudy.
7. To take trouble or pains; trouble one's self; worry: as, do not trouble about the matter.
8. n. Vexation; perplexity; worry; difficulties; trials; affliction.
9. n. Annoyance; molestation; persecution.
10. n. Disturbing, annoying, or vexatious circumstance, affair, or state; distress; difficulty.
11. n. A source or cause of annoyance, perplexity, or distress: as, he is a great trouble to us.
12. n. Labor; laborious effort: as, it is no trouble.
13. n. In law, particularly French law, anything causing injury or damage such as is the subject of legal relief.
14. n. A disease, or a diseased condition; an affection: as, a cancerous trouble.
15. n. In mining, a small fault. Also called a throw, slide, slip, heave, or check. = Syn. 1–3. Inconvenience, embarrassment, anxiety, adversity, misfortune, calamity, sorrow, tribulation, misery, plague, torment. See the verb.
16. Same as troubly.

Wiktionary

1. n. A distressful or dangerous situation.
2. n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
3. n. A violent occurrence or event.
4. n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
5. n. A malfunction, as in "heart trouble".
6. v. To bother; to annoy.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
2. v. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
3. v. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology.
4. adj. Troubled; dark; gloomy.
5. n. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
6. n. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
7. n. A fault or interruption in a stratum.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move deeply
2. v. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
3. v. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
4. n. a source of difficulty
5. v. take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
6. n. a strong feeling of anxiety
7. n. an event causing distress or pain
8. n. an unwanted pregnancy
9. n. an angry disturbance
10. v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
11. n. an effort that is inconvenient