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TROUBLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing distress or worry or anxiety
Example:
a worrying time
Synonyms:
distressful; distressing; disturbing; perturbing; troubling; worrisome; worrying
Classified under:
Similar:
heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb trouble
Context examples:
Nothing of the sort was visible; and when I asked a waiter if any one had been to inquire after a Miss Eyre, I was answered in the negative: so I had no resource but to request to be shown into a private room: and here I am waiting, while all sorts of doubts and fears are troubling my thoughts.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Forgive me for troubling you.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She longed to speak, but could think of nothing to say; and after a short silence Mrs. Bennet began repeating her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane, with an apology for troubling him also with Lizzy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure, said she, as my companion rose to greet her, but I have had a very strange experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be kind enough to tell me what I should do.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This would be an ideal time to see a psychotherapist if you want to get clarity about something that has been troubling you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But if you, being so full of learning, Mas'r Davy, could think of anything to say as might bring her to believe I wasn't greatly hurt: still loving of her, and mourning for her: anything as might bring her to believe as I was not tired of my life, and yet was hoping fur to see her without blame, wheer the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest—anything as would ease her sorrowful mind, and yet not make her think as I could ever marry, or as 'twas possible that anyone could ever be to me what she was—I should ask of you to say that—with my prayers for her—that was so dear.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
More than all do I rejoice that this, our first—and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous—step has been accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds and smells of horror which she might never forget.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me—I know not whether equally so to others—that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment—where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you feel you could use help on a troubling matter, such as for opioid distress and that you need rehab, this would be an ideal time to find a professional trained in addiction treatment so you can become free.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
My dear Copperfield, said Traddles, leaning back in his chair when they were gone, and looking at me with an affection that made his eyes red, and his hair all kinds of shapes, I don't make any excuse for troubling you with business, because I know you are deeply interested in it, and it may divert your thoughts.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
