Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Trouble

Trouble , transitive verb

[French troubler, Old French trobler, trubler, tourbler,from (assumed) Late Latin turbulare, Latin turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Greek {not transcribed}, and perhaps to English thorp; compare Sanskrit tvar, tur,o hasten. Compare Turbid.]

1.
To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. — John v. 4
God looking forth will trouble all his host. — Milton
2.
To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Now is my soul troubled. — John xii. 27
Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. — Shakespeare
Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. — Locke
3.
To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Trouble , adjective

Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obsolete]
With full trouble cheer. — Chaucer

Trouble , noun

[French trouble, Old French troble, truble. See Trouble, transitive verb]

1.
The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
Lest the fiend... some new trouble raise. — Milton
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. — Shakespeare
2.
That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
3.
(Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
She never took the trouble to close them. — Bryant