trouble

v

1. worry, alarm, upset, agitate, shake up, distress, concern; perturb, disturb, disquiet, discompose, discountenance, fluster, flutter, flurry, distract, unsettle, put out; confuse, bewilder, baffle, perplex, confound.

2. inconvenience, burden, cumber; impose upon, encroach upon, discommode, incommode, put [s.o.] to the trouble, Inf. make [s.o.] go out of his way; take the trouble, go to the trouble.

3. afflict, oppress, weigh heavily upon; grieve, aggrieve, sorrow, embitter; anguish, break [s.o.'s] heart, make [s.o.'s] heart bleed, Inf. cut up; weaken, debilitate, enervate, enfeeble; disable, invalid, incapacitate, cripple.

4. bother, pester, hector, harass, bedevil, Sl. bug, Sl. hassle, Sl. drive [s.o.] nuts or crazy or bananas, Sl. drive [s.o.] up a wall; plague, fret, torment; hound, dog, nag, pick on, be on [s.o.'s] back, Inf. give [s.o.] a hard time, Sl. ride; irritate, annoy, vex, irk, provoke, nettle, get on [s.o.'s] nerves, Inf. aggravate, Inf. get under [s.o.'s] skin, Inf. get in [s.o.'s] hair; exasperate, ruffle, try [s.o.'s] patience, Inf. grate on [s.o.'s] nerves.

n

5. annoyance, harassment, vexation, irritation, Inf. aggravation; bother, inconvenience, imposition, obtrusion, intrusion.

6. adversity, misfortune; pain, distress, suffering; grief, woe, sorrow, heartache, anguish; hard times, heavy weather; bad luck, hard luck, Inf. tough or rotten luck, Brit. hard lines; bad or ill fortune; hard time, Inf. a bad scene, Inf. mess, Inf. fix, Inf. jam, Inf. hot water; devil to pay.

7. disorder, confusion, chaos, bedlam, pandemonium; turmoil, moil, turbulence; civil disorder or strife, anarchy, mob-law, street-fighting, fighting in the streets; revolt, rebellion, insurrection, insurgency, uprising, outbreak.

8. ill health, poor health, unhealthiness, sickliness, feebleness, frailty; debility, enervation, infirmity, unsoundness.

9. worry, concern, Scot. fash, alarm, distress; anxiety, trepidation, uneasiness, fear and trembling; agitation, disquiet, unrest, disturbance, excitement, distraction.

10. trial, tribulation, ordeal; affliction, visitation, curse, blight; shock, shocker, blow, jolt, bolt from the blue, Psychiatry. trauma; reverse, reversal, check, setback, comedown, bringdown, bitter pill; load, burden, weight, heavy load or burden, cross, cross to bear; inconvenience, difficulty, disadvantage, handicap.

11. nuisance, pest, Inf. headache, Inf. pain, Sl. pain in the neck or rear, Sl. hassle; gadfly, buttonholer, Sl. nudnik; nag, pesterer, harasser, heckler, badgerer.

12. in trouble

(all out of wedlock) pregnant, with child, childing, in a delicate condition, Inf. expecting, Inf. in the family way, U.S. Sl. knocked-up.