stroublen

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === strabil, strobyll; strouble, strubill (Early Scots) strobelyn, strubbelyn (Promptorium Parvulorum) === Etymology === An apheretic form of distroublen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈstruːb(ə)lən/, /ˈstrub(ə)lən/ === Verb === stroublen (third-person singular simple present stroubleth, present participle stroublende, stroublynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stroubled) (Late Middle English) To disturb or unsettle (especially mentally) To break, impair, or destroy. To struggle or fight with. (Early Scots) To pollute or adulterate air. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Scots: struble, strubill === References === “strǒublen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “strubill, strouble, v..”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.