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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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- A malfunction.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (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)
- (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
- I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
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)
- trouble
- (medicine) disorder
Derived terms
- trouble de la personnalité
- trouble obsessionnel compulsif
Verb
trouble
- first-person singular present indicative of troubler
- third-person singular present indicative of troubler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- 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)
- (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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haunt
English
Alternative forms
- hant (Scotland), haint (US, dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English haunten (“to reside, inhabit, use, employ”), from Old French hanter (“to inhabit, frequent, resort to”), from Old Northern French hanter (“to go back home, frequent”), from Old Norse heimta (“to bring home, fetch”) or/and from Old English h?mettan (“to bring home; house; cohabit with”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjan? (“to house, bring home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?ym- (“village”).
Cognate with Old English h?mettan (“to provide housing to, bring home”); related to Old English h?m (“home, village”), Old French hantin (“a stay, a place frequented by”) from the same Germanic source. Another descendant from the French is Dutch hanteren, whence German hantieren, Swedish hantera, Danish håndtere. More at home.
Pronunciation
- enPR: hônt, IPA(key): /h??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- (some accents) enPR: hänt, IPA(key): /h??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- (some accents for noun definition #2) enPR: h?nt, IPA(key): /hænt/
- Rhymes: -ænt
Verb
haunt (third-person singular simple present haunts, present participle haunting, simple past and past participle haunted)
- (transitive) To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.
- those cares that haunt the court and town
- (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
- (transitive) To stalk, to follow
- (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The School master
- Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The School master
- (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
Synonyms
- (to make uneasy): nag
- (to live habitually): live, dwell; See also Thesaurus:reside
Translations
Noun
haunt (plural haunts)
- A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, "Kitty's Class Day":
- Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts, and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
- 1984, Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, "Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming," Time, 8 Oct.:
- Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, "Kitty's Class Day":
- (dialect) A ghost.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 93:
- ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 93:
- A feeding place for animals.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Utahn, unhat
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