transitive verb
Definition 1
Agitate, disturb, concern.
Source: Invertext, from the Concise Oxford Dictionary
Context: "What troubles officials is that even though they're using a risk model, they may not understand the human element of perceived risk and how that may affect business."
Source: Financial Times 02/04/2008, quoting Neil Fisher, VP of identity management for Unisys
Note
Those who find the English expression 'trouble' troublesome should bear in mind that that it comes from the late Latin verb 'turbulare', from the classical Latin adjective 'turbidus'. From this root the French derived 'truble' and the English 'trouble'. The key concept remains that of 'turbidus', i.e. something mixed up, turbulent, unclear, insoluble.
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