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Troubling

adjective

1.

Causing distress or worry or anxiety. Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, worrisome, worrying. "Lived in heroic if something distressful isolation" , "A disturbing amount of crime" , "A revelation that was most perturbing" , "A new and troubling thought" , "In a particularly worrisome predicament" , "A worrying situation" , "A worrying time"

Trouble

verb

(past & past part. troubled; pres. part. troubling)

1.

Move deeply. Synonyms: disturb, upset. "A troubling thought"

2.

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to. Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out.

3.

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed. Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge.

4.

Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself. Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself. "Don't bother, please"

5.

Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed. Synonyms: ail, pain.

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"Troubling" Quotes from Famous Books

... faith—" he began jestingly; then stopped, seeing the real anxiety in the serious brown eyes, and asked gently, "What is troubling ...

— At the Little Brown House • Ruth Alberta Brown

... receive a message from me by the thought waves. He thinks you are plotting injury to him. His brain is not yet sufficiently strong to show how foolish this fugitive fancy is. Perhaps you would go to him. He is troubling himself over this. You can ...

— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie

... invariable Saturday night's repast. Aunt Mercy passed cups of tea; I heard the gulping swallow of it in every throat, the silence was so profound. After the pudding we had dried apple-pie, which we ate from our hands, like bread. Grand'ther ate fast, not troubling himself to ask us if we would have more, but making the necessary motions to that effect by touching the spoon in the pudding or knife on the pie. Ruth and Sally still kept their eyes fixed on some invisible object at a distance. What a disagreeable interest I felt in them! What had they ...

— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard

... military force that appeared to justify the hope of victory should she undertake a war with her old rival. In order to bring about the expulsion of Austria from the confederation, Bismarck took advantage of a knotty problem that had been troubling Germany, and which was known as the Schleswig-Holstein affair. The provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, although inhabited largely by Germans, had for centuries belonged to the king of Denmark. They were allowed, however, ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... seemed like nervousness, or as if something was troubling her. They asked if she weren't ...

— Miss Billy • Eleanor H. Porter

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