trouble

Meanings

Noun

• A distressing or dangerous situation.
• A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• A violent occurrence or event.
• Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• A malfunction.
• Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• Wife. Short form of trouble and strife

Verb

• To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
• To take pains to do something.
• To worry; to be anxious.

Origin

• Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, 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. The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.