trouble

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an effort that is inconvenient

   I went to a lot of trouble

2. 2
   noun

   a source of difficulty

   one trouble after another delayed the job

3. 3
   noun

   an event causing distress or pain

   what is the trouble?

4. 4
   noun

   an unwanted pregnancy

   I got several of my peers in trouble.

5. 5
   verb

   to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

   Sorry to trouble you, but...

6. 6
   noun

   A distressing or dangerous situation.

   He was in trouble when the rain started.

7. 7
   noun

   A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

   The trouble was a leaking brake line.

8. 8
   noun

   A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.

   ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow

Etymology

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.