distrouble
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English distroublen, from Old French destrobler, metathetic form of destorbler; by surface analysis, dis- + trouble.
Verb
distrouble (third-person singular simple present distroubles, present participle distroubling, simple past and past participle distroubled)
- (obsolete) To trouble greatly; to perplex.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- passions of distroubled spright
Middle English
Verb
distrouble
- alternative form of distroublen