Definition of "troubles" []

• Plural form of trouble. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trouble. (verb)

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• "But the town knew worse troubles even than the floods, —troubles of the civil wars, when it was a continual fighting-place, where first Puritans thanked God for the blood of the Loyalists, and then Loyalists thanked God for the blood of the Puritans."
• "This effort to pluck George W. from his troubles is the latest episode in a recurrent drama -- from the drunken young man challenging his father to go "mano a mano" on the front lawn of the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to the father pulling strings to get the son into the Texas Air National Guard and helping salvage his finances from George W. 's mismanagement of Harken Energy."
• "JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: The U.S. still mourns its dead from September 11th, northern Ireland spent years, of course, suffering from what it called the troubles, and there is Iraq, where the attacks are still almost daily."