trouble

(countable, uncountable)A distressing or dangerous situation.

He was in trouble when the rain started.

Đồng nghĩa: ass in a sling, bind, bucket of syrup, calvary, cauldron, cross, cross to bear, difficulty, dilemma, dire straits, doghouse, fix, hole, jam, kettle, kettle of fish, ordeal, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, quandary, quagmire, situation, spot, spot of bother, sticky situation, sticky wicket, tight spot, trouble

(countable, uncountable)A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

The trouble was a leaking brake line.

The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

(countable, uncountable)A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.

(countable, uncountable)The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.

Đồng nghĩa: anguish, torment, anguish, rend, difficulty, distress, grief, hardship, pain, smart, torment, torture, trouble

(countable, uncountable)Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.

Your trouble is that you quit too readily.

The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.

Đồng nghĩa: pain in the neck, defect, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, drawback, deficiency, inadequacy, peccadillo, sin, bar, drag, barrier, bone in the throat, bump in the road, hindrance, impediment, obstruction, obstacle, encumbrance, hurdle, roadblock, stumbling block, hitch, annoyance, bother, faff, grievance, hassle, inconvenience, irritation, nuisance, palaver, peeve, plague, trouble, vexation

(countable, uncountable)Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.

the troubles in Northern Ireland

Đồng nghĩa: palaver, turmoil, ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bustle, bust-up, chaos, ferment, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, fuss, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pother, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stir, stooshie, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir

(countable, uncountable)Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

It’s no trouble for me to edit it.

(countable, uncountable)Difficulty in doing something.

She has trouble eating.

(countable, uncountable)Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.

He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.

Đồng nghĩa: affliction, malady, affliction, ailment, coath, complaint, disease, disorder, egritude, ill health, illness, indisposition, sickness, trouble, malady, morbus, rot

(countable, uncountable)A malfunction.

My old car has engine trouble.

(countable, uncountable)Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

He had some trouble with the law.

(countable, uncountable)(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

(Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable)(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.

Đồng nghĩa: ball and chain, better half, boss, bride, dutch, 'er indoors, frow, geezer, her indoors, lady, little woman, little lady, memsahib, missus, old lady, old woman, trouble, trouble and strife, wife, wifekin, wifelet, wifeling, wifey

(countable, dated, slang, uncountable)An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.

(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

Đồng nghĩa: inturbidate, muddle, roil, stir

(transitive)To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

Đồng nghĩa: distress, torment, afflict, aggrieve, plague, atray, cag, distress, engrieve, grame, harass, harrow, harry, torment, trouble, vex, rend, wring

(transitive)In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Đồng nghĩa: discommode, hassle, incommode, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off

(transitive, usually)(transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.

My bad knee is troubling me.

(intransitive, reflexive)(reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.

I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

Đồng nghĩa: make an effort, take great pains

(intransitive)To worry; to be anxious.

Đồng nghĩa: angst, anxietize, cark, fret