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7-letter words (2 found)

BOULTER,TROUBLE,

6-letter words (7 found)

BOLTER,BRULOT,BUTLER,ELUTOR,OUTLER,ROUBLE,TROULE,

5-letter words (26 found)

BLERT,BLORE,BLUER,BLUET,BLURT,BOREL,BOTEL,BOULE,BOULT,BRULE,BRUTE,BURET,BUTEO,BUTLE,LOURE,LUTER,OUTER,OUTRE,REBUT,ROBLE,ROULE,ROUTE,RUBEL,RUBLE,TUBER,TURBO,

4-letter words (43 found)

BELT,BLET,BLOT,BLUE,BLUR,BOET,BOLE,BOLT,BORE,BORT,BOTE,BOUT,BRUT,BURL,BUTE,EORL,EURO,LOBE,LORE,LOTE,LOUR,LOUT,LUBE,LURE,LUTE,ORLE,ROBE,ROLE,ROTE,ROTL,ROUE,ROUL,ROUT,RUBE,RULE,TOLE,TOLU,TORE,TOUR,TROU,TRUE,TUBE,TULE,

3-letter words (40 found)

BEL,BET,BOR,BOT,BRO,BRU,BUR,BUT,ELT,LET,LEU,LOB,LOR,LOT,LOU,LUR,OBE,OLE,ORB,ORE,ORT,OUR,OUT,REB,REO,RET,ROB,ROE,ROT,RUB,RUE,RUT,TEL,TOE,TOR,TUB,ULE,URB,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (15 found)

BE,BO,EL,ER,ET,LO,OB,OE,OR,OU,RE,TE,TO,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 134 words from trouble according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of trouble

trouble

Etymology

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, 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 truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trŭbʹəl; IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌb(ə)l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌb(ə)l/, /ˈtɹə-/
  • Rhymes: -ʌbəl
  • Hyphenation: trou‧ble

Noun

trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)

  1. A distressing or dangerous situation.
  2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
  3. A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
  4. The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
  5. Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback.
  6. Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
  7. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
  8. Difficulty in doing something.
  9. Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
  10. A malfunction.
  11. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
  12. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
  13. (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
  14. (slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Derived terms

Collocations

Descendants

  • Jersey Dutch: tröbel

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
  3. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
  4. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
  5. (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
  6. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
  7. (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • turbid
  • turbulent

Descendants

  • → Jersey Dutch: tröble

Translations

Further reading

  • “trouble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “trouble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • -buterol, Boulter, boulter

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁubl/

Etymology 1

Deverbal from troubler or from Old French troble.

Noun

trouble m (plural troubles)

  1. trouble
    fauteur de troubles ― troublemaker
  2. (medicine, psychiatry) disorder
    trouble bipolaire ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble de la personnalité ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble de l’érection ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble de l’humeur ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble du sommeil ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble mental ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble obsessionnel compulsif ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble psychiatrique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    trouble psychique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Descendants
  • → German: Trubel

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure.

Adjective

trouble (plural troubles)

  1. (of a liquid) murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear
Derived terms
  • pêcher en eau trouble

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trouble

  1. inflection of troubler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “trouble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org