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Trouble

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Broader term 27

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Anxiety 76% connected

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

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Difficulty 76% connected

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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Disturb 76% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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Disturbance 76% connected

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Exertion 76% connected

The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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Gestation 76% connected

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Impress 76% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Maternity 76% connected

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Perturbation 76% connected

The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

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Pregnancy 76% connected

The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Strive 76% connected

To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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Sweat 76% connected

of Sweat

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Travail 76% connected

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Affliction 76% connected

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

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Blaze 76% connected

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

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Convulsion 76% connected

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

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Disturbance 76% connected

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Embarrassment 76% connected

A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not kn…

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Hell 76% connected

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

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Hydra 76% connected

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediatel…

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Interference 76% connected

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of…

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Matter 76% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Misfortune 76% connected

Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Onslaught 76% connected

An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.

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Outrage 76% connected

To rage in excess of.

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Scandal 76% connected

Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgr…

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Manner of action 17

Agitate 76% connected

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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Cark 76% connected

A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Commove 76% connected

To urge; to persuade; to incite.

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Disorder 76% connected

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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Disquiet 76% connected

Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

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Distract 76% connected

Separated; drawn asunder.

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Distress 76% connected

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

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Erupt 76% connected

To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Jolt 76% connected

To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

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Perturb 76% connected

To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

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Rouse 76% connected

To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

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Straiten 76% connected

To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

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Unhinge 76% connected

To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

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Vex 76% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Worry 76% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Ailment 74% connected

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

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Ailment 74% connected

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

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Annoyance 74% connected

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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Annoyance 74% connected

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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Botheration 74% connected

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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Botheration 74% connected

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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Care 74% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Care 74% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Distract 74% connected

Separated; drawn asunder.

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Distract 74% connected

Separated; drawn asunder.

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Distraction 74% connected

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.

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Distraction 74% connected

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.

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Fuss 74% connected

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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Fuss 74% connected

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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Overthrow 74% connected

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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Overthrow 74% connected

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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Pain 74% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Pain 74% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Problematical 74% connected

Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.

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Problematical 74% connected

Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.

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Troublous 74% connected

Full of trouble; causing trouble.

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Troublous 74% connected

Full of trouble; causing trouble.

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Upset 74% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Upset 74% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Worry 74% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Worry 74% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Ail 92% connected

To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, who…

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Bother 92% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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Cark 92% connected

A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.

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Difficulty 92% connected

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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Discommode 92% connected

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

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Disoblige 92% connected

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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Disorder 92% connected

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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Disquiet 92% connected

Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

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Distract 92% connected

Separated; drawn asunder.

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Disturb 92% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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Fuss 92% connected

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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Incommode 92% connected

To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

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Inconvenience 92% connected

The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…

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Pain 92% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Perturb 92% connected

To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

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Problem 92% connected

A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

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Unhinge 92% connected

To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

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Upset 92% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Worry 92% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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