Word Finder - trouble

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A distressing or dangerous situation.

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He was in trouble when the rain started.

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

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The trouble was a leaking brake line.   The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.   The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

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A violent occurrence or event.

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the troubles in Northern Ireland

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Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

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It's no trouble for me to edit it.

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A malfunction.

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He's been in hospital with some heart trouble.   My old car has engine trouble.

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Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

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He had some trouble with the law.

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A fault or interruption in a stratum.

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

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

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What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

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In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

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I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

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To take pains to do something.

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I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

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To worry; to be anxious.

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(Australian rhyming slang) Wife.

I had trouble keeping up with him.

That's why I had so much trouble telling you.

I just had trouble concentrating.

They had no trouble in finding Solon.

The first sign of trouble, you'll be evac'd.

He had given them a great deal of trouble, and they wished to destroy him.

And I won't put up with any trouble at The Lucky Pup!

He was often making trouble among his neighbors.

Deidre almost cringed at the thought of leaving the chamber after her first venture out that landed her not only in trouble but also in Darkyn's bed.

I wouldn't want to start trouble with the guys.

Lisa had no trouble understanding why she seldom had company.

But the most luxuriously housed has little to boast of in this respect, nor need we trouble ourselves to speculate how the human race may be at last destroyed.

I had enough trouble in New York.

We knew the young girl was in trouble shortly after she left her house, with Howie following closely behind her.

I hope I haven't stirred up trouble for you.

Most educated blind people know several, but it would save trouble if, as Miss Keller suggests, English braille were universally adopted.

I doubt I'll have any trouble falling asleep.

It kind of leaves you in trouble either way, doesn't it?

Her heart was full of trouble, and she wanted to talk about it.

It will give you no trouble and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me.

I keep telling him that as long as he gives her money, she'll never get out of trouble, but he just says she's the only sister he has and he has the money.

Even the isolation didn't trouble her.

Sounds right if he got that gal in trouble and dragged her off to God-knows-where.

The afternoon was half gone, and the trouble was growing.

Sometimes he has trouble sleeping and it takes very little noise to wake him.

It was no trouble to me, and you are welcome.

A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth.

I had trouble sleeping on the sofa because I kept thinking about my vision from earlier.

Howie had tried to explain to us that when he was under, as he called it, he had trouble telling if he was speaking aloud.

Finding another Dawkins in one of Ouray's dozen or two lodging places shouldn't be much trouble for an ace detective-almost sheriff.

But he was still headstrong and ill-tempered; and he was often in trouble with the other sailors.

The trouble is, my ranch has been a safe haven and even headquarters for the wolf population around here.

The chessmen are of two sizes, the white larger than the black, so that I have no trouble in following my opponent's maneuvers by moving my hands lightly over the board after a play.

It would only cause him more trouble, both with the trip and wagging tongues.

Temptation, trial and trouble constitute the great triumvirate facing men daily.

It is a proof of the wisdom of Aurelius's clemency that he had little or no trouble in pacifying the provinces which had been the scene of rebellion.

But there is no evidence that the Jews were involved in these; for the account which Josephus gives of Bagoses' oppression of the Jews represents the trouble as having arisen originally from internal dissensions, and does not hint at anything of the nature of a rebellion against Persia.

It looks back on a time of great trouble and forward to a brighter future.

Although he had some trouble with the peasantry, the lands and treasures of the church enabled him to propitiate the nobles and for a time to provide for the expenses of the court.

Yet we cannot help feeling that it is a grotesque and unseemly anachronism to apply in grave prose, addressed to the whole world, those terms of saint and angel which are touching and in their place amid the trouble and passion of the great mystic poet.

The influx of Continental currency gave some trouble during the War of Independence, but there were no further local issues until 1786, when £10o,000 were issued.

This high physical zest in life seems to have declined after 1831, when his eyes began to trouble him, and he became liable to depression.

His health continued poor, and a fistula in the eye, from which he had suffered from early childhood, and to cure which he had undergone a number of painful operations, continued to trouble him.

Trouble soon arose in Saxony, probably owing to Otto's refusal to give certain lands to his half-brother, Thankmar, who, although the king's senior, had been passed over in the succession as illegitimate.

For many years there had been trouble between the ruler and the people over the ownership of the extensive crown lands, it being evidently feared at one time that an English prince might renounce the throne and yet claim the lands.

He remained throughout unflinchingly loyal to the British Raj, and by his vast and unquestioned influence among the frontier tribes on the northern borders of India he exercised a control over their unruly passions in times of trouble, which proved of invaluable service in the several expeditions led by British arms on the north-west frontier of India.

In the early days of British administration the hill people, the Nats and Santals, gave much trouble.

As for French, I am far from being so thorough a master of it as I could wish, but I know so much of it that I could perfect myself in it at any time with very little trouble, especially if I pass three or four months in France."

Trouble, however, soon arose over Zacynthus, and the Spartans not only sent help to the Zacynthian oligarchs but even besieged Corcyra (373) Timotheus was sent to relieve the island, but shortness of money compelled him to search for new allies, and he spent the summer of 373 in persuading Jason of Pherae (if he had not already joined), and certain towns in Thrace, the Chersonese, the Propontis and the Aegean to enrol themselves.

The triangle pennant on the ship signalled that the ship was in trouble.