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trouble

noun
  1. The condition of being in need of immediate assistance: distress, exigence, exigency, hot water. See help
  2. The state or quality of being inconvenient: discomfort, incommodiousness, incommodity, inconvenience. See comfort
  3. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box 1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight 1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup. Informal: bind, pickle, spot. See easy
  4. A cause of distress or anxiety: care, concern, worry. See concern
  5. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain 1, striving, struggle, while. Informal: elbow grease. See work
verb
  1. To cause anxious uneasiness in: ail, cark, concern, distress, worry. See concern
  2. To come to mind continually: haunt, obsess, torment, weigh on or upon . See repetition
  3. To cause inconvenience for: discomfort, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out. See comfort

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