verb
- Move deeply.
- usage: "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- To cause inconvenience or discomfort to.
- usage: "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
- synonyms: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
- Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
- usage: "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself.
- usage: "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"
- synonyms: trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself
- Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed.
adjective
- Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need.
- usage: "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
- Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination.
- usage: "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"
- synonyms: disruptive, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent
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