trouble

  • (noun): A distressing or dangerous situation.
  • (noun): A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
  • (noun): A violent occurrence or event.
  • (noun): Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
  • (noun): A malfunction.
  • (noun): Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
  • (noun): A fault or interruption in a stratum.
  • (verb): To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
  • (verb): To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
  • (verb): In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
  • (verb): To take pains to do something.
  • (verb): To worry; to be anxious.
  • (noun): (Australian rhyming slang) Wife.
  • He was in trouble when the rain started.
  • The trouble was a leaking brake line.   The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.   The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.
  • the troubles in Northern Ireland
  • It's no trouble for me to edit it.
  • He's been in hospital with some heart trouble.   My old car has engine trouble.