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Trouble vs Cumber - What's the difference?

trouble | cumber |

As verbs the difference between trouble and cumber

is that trouble is to disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water) while cumber is to slow down, to hinder, to burden.

As a noun trouble

is a distressful or dangerous situation.

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.
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    • , 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

    See also

    * for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.

    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.

    Related terms

    * turbid * turbulent

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    cumber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cumbre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden.
  • * Dryden
    • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
  • * John Locke
    • The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, but cumbers the memory.
  • * 1886 , Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel . Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
    • the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

    Synonyms

    * encumber

    See also

    *

    Related terms

    * cumbersome * cumbrous * encumbrance * cumberground

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