trouble

1. noun

1)

you've caused enough trouble already

Syn:

problems, difficulty, bother, inconvenience, worry, concern, anxiety, distress, stress, strife, agitation, harassment, hassle, unpleasantness

2)

she poured out all her troubles

Syn:

problem, misfortune, difficulty, trial, tribulation, trauma, burden, pain, woe, grief, heartache, misery, affliction, vexation, suffering

3)

he's gone to a lot of trouble to help you

Syn:

effort, inconvenience, fuss, bother, exertion, work, labor; pains, care, attention, thought

4)

Rodney has been no trouble at all

Syn:

nuisance, bother, inconvenience, irritation, irritant, problem, trial, pest, thorn in someone's flesh/side, headache, pain, pain in the neck/backside, drag; informal pain in the butt, burr under someone's saddle, nudnik

5)

you're too gullible, that's your trouble

Syn:

shortcoming, flaw, weakness, weak point, failing, fault, imperfection, defect, blemish; problem, difficulty

6)

he had a history of heart trouble

Syn:

disease, illness, sickness, ailments, complaints, problems; disorder, disability

7)

the crash was due to engine trouble

Syn:

malfunction, dysfunction, failure, breakdown

8)

a game marred by serious crowd trouble

Syn:

disturbance, disorder, unrest, unruliness, fighting, fracas, breach of the peace

2. verb

1)

this matter had been troubling her for some time

Syn:

worry, bother, concern, disturb, upset, agitate, distress, perturb, annoy, irritate, vex, irk, nag, niggle, prey on someone's mind, weigh down, burden; informal bug

2)

he was troubled by bouts of ill health

Syn:

be afflicted by, be burdened with; suffer from, be cursed with, be plagued by

3)

there is nothing you need trouble about

Syn:

worry, upset oneself, fret, be anxious, be concerned, concern oneself

4)

don't trouble to see me out

Syn:

bother, take the trouble, go to the trouble, exert oneself, go out of one's way

5)

I'm sorry to trouble you

Syn:

inconvenience, bother, impose on, disturb, put out, pester, hassle; formal discommode

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- in trouble