A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need, A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty, Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969, intransitive verb_ To afflict with pain or discomfort, To cause to have emotional or mental problems that interfere with social functioning, To agitate; stir up, transitive verb_ To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate, To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology, To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed, adjective_ obsolete Troubled; dark; gloomy