troubleth

Verb

trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
   • For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 5:4

   Synonyms:

   inturbidate, muddle, roil, stir

2. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
   • What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

   Synonyms:

   distress, torment, afflict, lacerate, aggrieve, plague, atray, cag, engrieve, grame

3. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
   • I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

   Synonyms:

   discommode, hassle, incommode, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass

4. (transitive, usually) To physically afflict.
   • My bad knee is troubling me.
5. (intransitive, reflexive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
   • I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

   Synonyms:

   make an effort, take great pains

6. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
   • Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26

   Synonyms:

   angst, anxietize, cark, fret

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