distrouble

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verb

To trouble greatly; to perplex.

OriginMiddle English distroublen ← Old French destrobler →
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Meanings

verbdistrouble (third-person singular simple present distroubles, present participle distroubling, simple past and past participle distroubled)

present singular third person distroubles · participle present distroubling · participle past distroubled · past distroubled

  1. obsoleteTo trouble greatly; to perplex.

    passions of distroubled spright

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchdestrobler
  2. Middle Englishdistroublen
  3. Englishdistrouble

Inherited from Middle English distroublen, from Old French destrobler, metathetic form of destorbler; by surface analysis, dis- + trouble.

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APA

distrouble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distrouble

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “distrouble,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distrouble.

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