trouble
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Is trouble a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.countableuncountable
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.Synonyms: ball and chain, better half, boss, bride, dutch, 'er indoors, frow, geezerCockneycountableslanguncountable
3. (slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.Examples: "I never had schoolin’ but he taught me well / With his smooth southern style / Three months later I’m a gal in trouble / And I haven’t seen him for a while."countabledatedslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).Examples: "For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:"; "God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt"Synonyms: inturbidate, muddle, roil, stirarchaictransitive
2. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.Examples: "What she said about narcissism is troubling me."; "Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre."; "Take the Boy to you: he ſo troubles me, / ’Tis paſt enduring."Synonyms: distress, torment, afflict, aggrieve, plague, atray, cag, distresstransitive
3. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.Examples: "I will not trouble you to deliver the letter."Synonyms: discommode, hassle, incommode, aggravate, annoy, rankle, ruffle, stingtransitive
4. (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.Examples: "My bad knee is troubling me."transitiveusually
5. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.Examples: "I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow."; "« The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said."Synonyms: make an effort, take great painsintransitivereflexive
6. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.Examples: "Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain."Synonyms: angst, anxietize, cark, fretintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary