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verb

Trouble v. t. (past & past part. troubled; pres. part. troubling)

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. "An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water." "God looking forth will trouble all his host."

To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. "Now is my soul troubled." "Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring." "Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure."

To give occasion for labor to; used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Synonyms: To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.

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... rectory was soon traversed. They parted in the garden without kiss, scarcely with a pressure of hands; yet Robert sent his cousin in excited and joyously troubled. He had been singularly kind to her that day—not in phrase, compliment, profession, but in manner, in look, and in soft and ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... reader who feels troubled lest it should be his duty also to forsake all the conditions of his life and to take up the position and work of a common laborer, may rest for the present on the principle, SECURUS JUDICAT ORBIS TERRARUM. With few and rare exceptions," he continues, ...

— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

... balls were as large as small pumpkins. It was evidently food of some sort, and we found it sweet but sickish, and those who were so hungry as to break up one of the balls and divide it among the others, making a good meal of it, were a little troubled with nausea afterwards. I considered it bad policy to rob the Indians of any of their food, for they must be pretty smart people to live in this desolate country and find enough to keep them alive, and I ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... the wind appeared to be blowing when the boat was at rest, or when it was sailing in some different direction. Bradley's sagacity saw in this observation the clue to the Difficulty which had so long troubled him. ...

— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball

... as we observed a Patient to be troubled with Worms, if his present Situation did not prevent it, we gave twenty-five or thirty Grains of Rhubarb, with five or six Grains of Calomel; and if there was much Sickness, we likewise gave an Emetic; which, ...

— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

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