Usually means: Difficulty or problems causing distress.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. trouble: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. trouble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trouble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trouble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trouble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Trouble, trouble: Wordnik
  7. trouble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. trouble: Wiktionary
  9. trouble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trouble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. trouble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. trouble: Dictionary.com
  13. trouble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. trouble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Trouble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. trouble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. trouble: Rhymezone
  19. trouble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. trouble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. trouble: Free Dictionary
  22. trouble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. trouble: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. trouble: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. trouble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trouble (album), Trouble (single), Trouble (song), trouble: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trouble (album), Trouble (single), Trouble (song), trouble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trouble: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trouble, trouble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A distressing or dangerous situation.
noun:  A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
noun:  A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
noun:  The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
noun:  Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback.
noun:  Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
noun:  Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
noun:  Difficulty in doing something.
noun:  Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
noun:  A malfunction.
noun:  Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
noun:  (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
noun:  (slang, dated) An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
verb:  (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
verb:  (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
verb:  (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
verb:  (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
verb:  (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

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