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
- Causing distress or worry or anxiety.
- usage: "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- synonyms: distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, worrisome, worrying
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