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Word entry · 7 letters

trouble

Best crossword clue

"Problem or difficulty"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹʌbəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted belortuStarts with TEnds with E3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Difficulty, distress, or a cause of concern.

Word origin

Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, 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 trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.

Used in a sentence

  • He was in trouble when the rain started.
  • The trouble was a leaking brake line.
  • The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

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Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Problem or difficulty7 letters
02Difficulty or problems7 letters
03Difficulty or worry7 letters

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