Worry

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  • intransitive verb. To feel uneasy or concerned about something; be troubled. synonym: brood.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To seize something with the teeth and bite or tear repeatedly.
  • intransitive verb. To touch or handle something nervously or persistently.
  • intransitive verb. To attempt to deal with something in a persistent or dogged manner.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to feel anxious, distressed, or troubled. synonym: trouble.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To seize with the teeth and bite or tug at repeatedly.
  • intransitive verb. To touch or handle nervously or persistently.
  • intransitive verb. To attack roughly and repeatedly; harass.
  • intransitive verb. To bother or annoy, as with petty complaints.
  • intransitive verb. To attempt to deal with in a persistent or repeated manner.
  • intransitive verb. To chase and nip at or attack.
  • noun. The act of worrying or the condition of being worried; persistent mental uneasiness.
  • noun. A source of nagging concern or uneasiness.
  • idiom. (not to worry) There is nothing to worry about; there is no need to be concerned.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe
  • noun. A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret.
  • transitive verb. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
  • transitive verb. To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague.
  • transitive verb. To harass with labor; to fatigue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
  • verb. To harass; to irritate or distress.
  • verb. Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
  • verb. To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
  • verb. To strangle.
  • noun. A strong feeling of anxiety.
  • noun. An instance or cause of such a feeling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. touch or rub constantly
  • verb. lacerate by biting
  • verb. disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
  • noun. something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
  • verb. be concerned with
  • verb. be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
  • noun. a strong feeling of anxiety
  • verb. be on the mind of