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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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torture
English
Etymology
From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tort?ra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Middle Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquere (“to twist”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t??t???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t??t???(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)
- Homophone: torcher
- Hyphenation: tor?ture
Noun
torture (countable and uncountable, plural tortures)
- intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony
- (chiefly literary) the "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships
- Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. ([3])
- (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
torture (third-person singular simple present tortures, present participle torturing, simple past and past participle tortured)
- (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- torture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- torture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- torture at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- trouter, tutorer
Asturian
Verb
torture
- first-person singular present subjunctive of torturar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of torturar
French
Etymology
From Late Latin tort?ra, from Latin tortus, from torque?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??.ty?/
- Rhymes: -y?
- Homophones: torturent, tortures
Noun
torture f (plural tortures)
- torture
- With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Swedish: tortyr c
Verb
torture
- first-person singular present indicative of torturer
- third-person singular present indicative of torturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
- second-person singular imperative of torturer
Further reading
- “torture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Noun
torture f
- plural of tortura
Anagrams
- rotture, rutterò, ruttore
Latin
Participle
tort?re
- vocative masculine singular of tort?rus
Portuguese
Verb
torture
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of torturar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of torturar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of torturar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of torturar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /to??tu?e/, [t?o??t?u.?e]
Verb
torture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of torturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of torturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of torturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of torturar.
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