What does "trouble" mean?
Trouble: God looking forth will trouble all his host. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. Now is my soul troubled. John xii.
- 3.Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. Shak. Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.
- 4.To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- 5.Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." Chaucer.
- 6.The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity. Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise. Milton. Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. Shak.
- 7.That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
- 8.(Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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