To choke; suffocate.
To seize by the throat with the teeth; bite at or tear with the teeth, as dogs when fighting; kill or injure badly by repeated biting, tearing, shaking, etc.: as, a dog that worries sheep; a terrier worries rats.
To tease; trouble; harass with importunity or with care and anxiety; plague; bother; vex; persecute.
Synonyms Pester, Plague, etc. (see tease), disturb, disquiet.
To choke; be suffocated, as by something stopping the windpipe.
To fight, as dogs, by seizing and biting at each other; be engaged in biting, shaking, or mangling with the teeth.
To be unduly anxious and careful; give way to anxiety; be over-solicitous or disquieted about things; borrow trouble; fret.
noun.
The act of worrying or biting and mangling with the teeth; the act of killing by biting and shaking.
noun.
Harassing anxiety, solicitude, or turmoil; perplexity arising from over-anxiety or petty annoyances and cares; trouble: as, it is not work but worry that kills; the worries of housekeeping.