A distressing or dangerous situation.
He was in trouble when the rain started.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
The trouble was a leaking brake line.
A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“...
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In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.