trouble

IPA: trˈʌbʌɫ

noun

  • A distressing or dangerous situation.
  • A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
  • A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
  • A violent occurrence or event.
  • Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
  • A malfunction.
  • Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
  • (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
  • An unplanned, unwanted and/or undesired pregnancy.

verb

  • (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
  • (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
  • (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
  • (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
  • (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
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Examples of "trouble" in Sentences

  • Now, all that that means is this: I don't know what your trouble is, but, if money can cure it, you _haven't got any trouble_.
  • The reason Bennett's in trouble is because he is a member of the political party that caused this economic meltdown in the first place.
  • Annie said she thought she would at least like to go to the seaside somewhere during the summer, but "No," Lyra said; "it would be too much trouble, and you know, Annie, I always did hate _trouble_.
  • ROBERTS: Well, and the Republicans tried to answer that at the end of last week, because one of the reasons that they are in trouble is that this label of the party of no has been sticking to them to some degree.
  • Although living under a monarchy, he could not help sneering at the kindness of those omnipotent governments who, in their paternal desire to spare the people they govern all trouble, would like to spare them even the “trouble of thinking.
  • That's also why cars from financially distressed companies lose their value -- part of the reason why companies like Chrysler are in trouble is because they depended on these large fleet purchases, which artificially inflate sales numbers but decrease the value of the vehicles.

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