Trouble vs Curse - What's the difference?
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A distressful or dangerous situation.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
A violent occurrence or event.
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, title= Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
* Bryant
*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.
To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
* Bible, John v. 4
* Milton
To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
* Bible, John xii. 27
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
To take pains to do something.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.26:
A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
* Shakespeare
A vulgar epithet.
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(lb) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
*
*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed' the fate which had assigned such a duty, ' cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
*Bible, (w) xxii. 28
*:Thou shalt notcurse the ruler of thy people.
(lb) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
(lb) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
*Bible, (w) xxi. 74
*:Then began he to curse and to swear.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:His spirits hear me, / And yet I need must curse .
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:On impious realms and barbarous kings impose / Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
As verbs the difference between trouble and curse
is that trouble is while curse is .trouble
English
Noun
(en noun)- Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.
- Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles .
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- She never took the trouble to close them.
Usage notes
* Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived 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 spotSee also
* for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.Verb
(troubl)- An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
- God looking forth will trouble all his host.
- Now is my soul troubled .
- Take the boy to you; he so troubles me / 'Tis past enduring.
- Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
- Question 3 in the test is troubling me.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
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English
Noun
(wikipedia curse) (en noun)- The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses ", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}