2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Now is my soul troubled.
John xii. 27.
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. 3. To give occasion for labor to; — used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the
letter.
Syn. — To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.
Trouble
(Trou"ble) a. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." Chaucer.
Trouble
(Trou"ble), n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.]
1. 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. 2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
3. (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. Syn. — Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.
Troubler
(Trou"bler) n. One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler
of the peace.
The rich troublers of the world's repose.
Waller. Troublesome
(Trou"ble*some) a. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
This troublesome world.
Book of Common Prayer.
These troublesome disguises that we wear.
Milton.
My mother will never be troublesome to me.
Pope. Syn. — Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying; disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome; wearisome; importunate.
— Trou"ble*some*ly, adv. — Trou"ble*some*ness, n.
Troublous
(Trou"blous) a. Full of trouble; causing trouble. "In doubtful time of troublous need." Byron.
A tall ship tossed in troublous seas.
Spenser. Trou-de-loup
(||Trou"-de-loup") n.; pl. Trous-de-loup [F. trou hole + de of + loup wolf.] (Mil.) A pit
in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy,
and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes.
