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Trouble vs. Affliction — What's the Difference?

Trouble vs. Affliction — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Trouble and Affliction

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Trouble

Difficulty or problems
Friends should support each other when they are in trouble
I had trouble finding somewhere to park
Our troubles are just beginning
The government's policies ran into trouble

Affliction

A cause of pain or harm
A crippling affliction of the nervous system

Trouble

Public unrest or disorder
There was crowd trouble before and during the match

Affliction

A condition of pain, suffering, or distress
The affliction of arthritis.

Trouble

Cause distress or anxiety to
He was not troubled by doubts
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Affliction

A cause of pain, suffering, or distress
"The mount twists wind and weather to alter them into afflictions as a heartless monarch does laws" (William Least Heat-Moon).

Trouble

A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need
Tried to console them in their trouble.
Got in trouble with the police.

Affliction

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

Trouble

A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation
I've had troubles ever since I took this job.

Affliction

Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

Trouble

A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty
The new recruits were a trouble to him.

Affliction

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
To repay that money will be a biting affliction.

Trouble

Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome
Went to a lot of trouble to find this book.

Affliction

The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.
Some virtues are seen only in affliction.

Trouble

A condition of pain, disease, or malfunction
Heart trouble.
Car trouble.

Affliction

A state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

Trouble

Public unrest or disorder.

Affliction

A condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

Trouble

An instance of this; a disturbance.

Affliction

A cause of great suffering and distress

Trouble

Troubles Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.

Trouble

To afflict with pain or discomfort
My stomach is troubling me.

Trouble

To cause to be anxious or worried
Was troubled by the decline in sales.

Trouble

To cause to have emotional or mental problems that interfere with social functioning
A teenager who is troubled and needs help.

Trouble

To inconvenience; bother
May I trouble you for directions?.

Trouble

To agitate; stir up
Winds troubling the waters.

Trouble

To take pains
They trouble over every detail.

Trouble

A distressing or dangerous situation.
He was in trouble when the rain started.

Trouble

A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
The trouble was a leaking brake line.
The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.
The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

Trouble

A violent occurrence or event.
The troubles in Northern Ireland

Trouble

Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
It's no trouble for me to edit it.

Trouble

A malfunction.
He's been in hospital with some heart trouble.
My old car has engine trouble.

Trouble

Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
He had some trouble with the law.

Trouble

(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

Trouble

(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. trouble and strife

Trouble

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

Trouble

(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

Trouble

(transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Trouble

To take pains to do something.
I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

Trouble

(intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

Trouble

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
God looking forth will trouble all his host.

Trouble

To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Now is my soul troubled.
Take the boy to you; he so troubles me'T is past enduring.
Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.

Trouble

To give occasion for labor to; - used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

Trouble

Troubled; dark; gloomy.

Trouble

The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deedsDo breed unnatural troubles.

Trouble

That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

Trouble

A fault or interruption in a stratum.
She never took the trouble to close them.

Trouble

A source of difficulty;
One trouble after another delayed the job
What's the problem?

Trouble

An angry disturbance;
He didn't want to make a fuss
They had labor trouble
A spot of bother

Trouble

An event causing distress or pain;
What is the trouble?
Heart trouble

Trouble

An effort that is inconvenient;
I went to a lot of trouble
He won without any trouble
Had difficulty walking
Finished the test only with great difficulty

Trouble

A strong feeling of anxiety;
His worry over the prospect of being fired
It is not work but worry that kills
He wanted to die and end his troubles

Trouble

An unwanted pregnancy;
He got several girls in trouble

Trouble

Move deeply;
This book upset me
A troubling thought

Trouble

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to;
Sorry to trouble you, but...

Trouble

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed;
She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill

Trouble

Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself;
He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday
Don't bother, please

Trouble

Cause bodily suffering to

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