trouble
/ˈt͡ʃɹʌbəl/ verb B1- To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed. · What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience. · I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- To physically afflict. · My bad knee is troubling me.
- To take pains (to do something); to bother. · I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
- To worry; to be anxious.
He/she/it troubles · Past troubled · Past participle troubled · -ing form troubling
Verb forms
- Base form
- trouble
- He/she/it
- troubles
- Past
- troubled
- Past participle
- troubled
- -ing form
- troubling
From the library
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go!
“As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon; “but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!
“Pray don’t trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,” said Alice.
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