Trouble /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Troubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

1. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]

1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

   Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.

   Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.

2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
3. A fault or interruption in a stratum. (Mining)

   She never took the trouble to close them.