trouble difficulty | an effort that is inconvenient, I went to a lot of trouble, he won without any trouble, had difficulty walking, finished the test only with great difficulty |
breathing external respiration respiration ventilation | the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation, the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation |
abdominal breathing | breathing in which most of the respiratory effort is done by the abdominal muscles, abdominal breathing is practiced by singers |
periodic breathing Cheyne-Stokes respiration | abnormal respiration in which periods of shallow and deep breathing alternate |
exhalation expiration breathing out | the act of expelling air from the lungs |
inhalation inspiration aspiration intake breathing in | the act of inhaling, the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing |
breathing device breathing apparatus breathing machine ventilator | a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure |
difficulty difficultness | the quality of being difficult, they agreed about the difficulty of the climb |
difficulty | a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result, serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent |
trouble problem | a source of difficulty, one trouble after another delayed the job, what's the problem? |
trouble | an event causing distress or pain, what is the trouble?, heart trouble |
fuss trouble bother hassle | an angry disturbance, he didn't want to make a fuss, they had labor trouble, a spot of bother |
worry trouble | a strong feeling of anxiety, his worry over the prospect of being fired, it is not work but worry that kills, he wanted to die and end his troubles |
troublemaker trouble maker troubler mischief-maker bad hat | someone who deliberately stirs up trouble |
troubleshooter trouble shooter | a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) |
breathing room breathing space | sufficient room for easy breathing or movement, moved to the country to find breathing room |
trouble | an unwanted pregnancy, he got several girls in trouble |
difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome, grappling with financial difficulties |
breath breather breathing place breathing space breathing spell breathing time | a short respite |
trouble ail pain | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed |
trouble-shoot troubleshoot | solve problems, He is known to be good at trouble-shooting |
ask for it ask for trouble | persist with actions or an attitude despite the probability that it will cause trouble, He is asking for trouble with his behavior |
perturb unhinge disquiet trouble cark distract disorder | disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed, She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill |
disturb upset trouble | move deeply, This book upset me, A troubling thought |
trouble oneself trouble bother inconvenience oneself | take the trouble to do something, concern oneself, He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday, Don't bother, please |
trouble put out inconvenience disoblige discommode incommode bother | to cause inconvenience or discomfort to, Sorry to trouble you, but... |
breathing eupneic eupnoeic | passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally, sometimes used in combination, the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs, the heavy-breathing person on the telephone |
trouble-free | without problems or difficulties, NASA reported a trouble-free launch |
air-breathing | deriving oxygen from the air, he studied respiration in marine air-breathing vertebrates, large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils |