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chafe

English

Etymology

From Middle English chaufen (to warm), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (to make warm), from calere (to be warm) + facere (to make). See caldron.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /t?e?f/
  • Rhymes: -e?f

Noun

chafe (uncountable)

  1. Heat excited by friction.
  2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
  3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.5:
      Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns []
  4. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument
    • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier
      When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.

Derived terms

  • chafen

Translations

Verb

chafe (third-person singular simple present chafes, present participle chafing, simple past and past participle chafed)

  1. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
  2. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
  3. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
  4. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
    • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
      made its great boughs chafe together
  5. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
  6. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
    • 1996, Jim Schiller, Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:
      Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy []

Translations

References

  • chafe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • chafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Verb

chafe

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chafar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chafar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chafar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of chafar.

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trouble

English

Etymology

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 *turbul?re, from Latin turbula (disorderly group, a little crowd or people), diminutive of turba (stir; crowd). The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tr?b??l; IPA(key): /?t??b(?)l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?t??b(?)l/, /?t??-/
  • Rhymes: -?b?l
  • Hyphenation: trou?ble

Noun

trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)

  1. A distressing or dangerous situation.
  2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
  3. A violent occurrence or event.
  4. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
    • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
      She never took the trouble to close them.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
      Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.
  5. A malfunction.
  6. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
  7. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
  8. (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.

Usage notes

  • Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.

Verb

trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
  2. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
    What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
  3. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
    I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
  4. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
    I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
  5. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
      Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

Related terms

  • turbid
  • turbulent

Translations

Further reading

  • trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • trouble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • -buterol, Boulter, boulter

French

Etymology 1

Deverbal of troubler or from Old French troble.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?ubl/

Noun

trouble m (plural troubles)

  1. trouble
  2. (medicine) disorder

Derived terms

  • trouble de la personnalité
  • trouble obsessionnel compulsif

Verb

trouble

  1. first-person singular present indicative of troubler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of troubler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
  5. second-person singular imperative of troubler

Etymology 2

From Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure.

Adjective

trouble (plural troubles)

  1. (of a liquid) murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear

Derived terms

  • pêcher en eau trouble

Further reading

  • “trouble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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