Trouble vs Chagrin - What's the difference?

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Trouble is a related term of chagrin.

As verbs the difference between trouble and chagrin

is that trouble is while chagrin is to bother or vex; to mortify.

As a noun chagrin is

distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.

trouble

English

Noun

(en noun)

A distressful or dangerous situation.

A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

* (John Milton)

Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.

* (William Shakespeare)

Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles .

A violent occurrence or event.

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble . It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”}}

Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

* Bryant

She never took the trouble to close them.

*1881 , :

*:Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.

A malfunction.

Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

Usage notes

* Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* ask for trouble * distrouble * double trouble * engine trouble * get into trouble * in trouble * teething troubles * trouble and strife * troubled * trouble-free * trouble in paradise * troublemaker/trouble maker * troubler * The Troubles * troubleshoot * troubleshooter * troubleshooting * troublesome * trouble spot

Verb

(troubl)

To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

* Bible, John v. 4

An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.

* Milton

God looking forth will trouble all his host.

To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

* Bible, John xii. 27

Now is my soul troubled .

* Shakespeare

Take the boy to you; he so troubles me / 'Tis past enduring.

* John Locke

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.

In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.

Question 3 in the test is troubling me.

I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

To take pains to do something.

* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.26:

Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

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chagrin

English

Noun

Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.

* 1876 , , Rose In Bloom , ch. 8:

[H]e alone knew how deep was the deluded man's chagrin at the failure of the little plot which he fancied was prospering finely.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}

A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.

Usage notes

* Often used in the form to one’s chagrin .

Synonyms

* (distress of mind) disquiet, fretfulness, mortification, peevishness, vexation * (type of leather) shagreen

Descendants

* shagreen

Verb

(en verb)

To bother or vex; to mortify.

She was chagrined to note that the paint had dried into a blotchy mess.

To be vexed or annoyed.

(Fielding)

Usage notes

* The verb form is rarely found in other than passive voice.

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