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distrouble

distrouble verb: to trouble greatly; to perplex.

Verb

distrouble (third-person singular simple present distroubles, present participle distroubling, simple past and past participle distroubled)

  1. (obsolete) To trouble greatly; to perplex.
    • passions of distroubled spright1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of distrouble

third-person singular presentdistroubles
present participledistroubling
past participledistroubled
pastdistroubled

Origin of distrouble

Inherited from Middle English distroublen, from Old French destrobler, metathetic form of destorbler; by surface analysis, dis- + trouble.

Questions about distrouble

What does distrouble mean?
Distrouble means to trouble greatly; to perplex.
What part of speech is distrouble?
Distrouble is a verb.
What is the past tense of distrouble?
The past tense of distrouble is distroubled.

Words near distrouble in the dictionary

  1. distrontium
  2. distropha
  3. distrophae
  4. distrophic
  5. distros
  6. distrouble
  7. distroubled
  8. distroubles
  9. distroubling
  10. distrust
  11. distrusted

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