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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