Trouble vs Implicate - What's the difference?

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Trouble is a related term of implicate.

As verbs the difference between trouble and implicate

is that trouble is while implicate is to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

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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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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implicate

English

Verb

(implicat)

To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

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To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

(archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.