How to pronounce “trouble”

Meaning

• [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.
• The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
• Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
• Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
• Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• Difficulty in doing something.
• Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
• 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.
• (slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted 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.
• (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
• (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
• (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

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