Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to mentally distress; to cause to be anxious or perplexed:
Русский
By meaning 1
to bother; to annoy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to bother; to annoy:

Examples

3070 sentences

  1. I'm sorry to trouble you so much.

    Я перепрошую, що настільки турбую Вас. — ChickenKiev

    ruПрошу прощения, что так вас беспокою. — Elenkina

    deEs tut mir leid dir so viel Kummer zu machen. — Esperantostern

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  2. Sorry to trouble you, but can you help me?

    Перепрошую за те, що я вас турбую, але чи не могли би ви допомогти мені? — deniko

    ruИзвините за то, что я вас беспокою, но не могли бы вы помочь мне? — odexed

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  3. I'm sorry to trouble you.

    Перепрошую, що турбую. — deniko

    ruМне жаль беспокоить вас. — Wayawa

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Meaning

6 senses

  1. (intransitive, reflexive)To take pains (to do something); to bother.

    I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

    beunruhigen, belästigen, bekümmern

    беспоко́итьbespokóitʹ, побеспоко́итьpobespokóitʹ, обеспоко́итьobespokóitʹ

    турбува́тиturbuváty

  2. (transitive)In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

    I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

    to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

  3. (transitive)To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

    What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

    турбува́тиturbuváty, непоко́їтиnepokójity, занепоко́їтиzanepokójity

More meanings 3

  1. (transitive, usually)To physically afflict.

    My bad knee is troubling me.

  2. (intransitive)To worry; to be anxious.

  3. (archaic, transitive)To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

Origin

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler,

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

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Forms

troubles, troubling, troubled, troubled

regular · Lesson

Base formtrouble · to trouble
3rd person singulartroubles
Present participletroubling
Past simpletroubled
Past participletroubled

Tenses

trouble · troubled · will trouble · have troubled

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrouble
he, she, ittroubles

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave troubled
he, she, ithas troubled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trouble

Past simpleLesson

all personstroubled

Synonyms

105 synonyms
To take pains:make an efforttake great pains
In weaker sense:annoyA2botherA2bugA2getA1devilB2irritateB1jazzB1nerveB2persecuteC1provokeC1stormA2discommodehassleincommode
To mentally distress:tormentC1plagueC1harassC1harrowB2distressafflictlacerateaggrieveatraycagengrievegrameharryvex
To worry:angstC2anxietizecarkfret
(archaic)To disturb, stir up, agitate:stirB1inturbidatemuddleroil
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
RelatedturbulentB2turbid
Derivedovertroubleuntroublableuntrouble

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • get into trouble
  • was in trouble
  • get in trouble
  • lot of trouble
  • any trouble
  • is having trouble
  • have any trouble
  • trouble finding
  • had trouble finding
  • having trouble sleeping
  • troubled by what
  • having trouble breathing

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tropospheretrottroubadourtroublemakertroubleshoottroublesomeB2trough

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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