Crossword clues for worrying
worrying
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worry \Wor"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worried; p. pr. & vb. n. Worrying.] [OE. worowen, wirien, to strangle, AS. wyrgan in [=a]wyrgan; akin to D. worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. w["u]rgen, Lith. verszti, and perhaps to E. wring.]
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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood.
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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. ``A church worried with reformation.''
--South.Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure.
--Rowe.Worry him out till he gives consent.
--Swift. To harass with labor; to fatigue. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
induce worry. n. The act of worrying or harassing somebody. v
(present participle of worry English)
WordNet
adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" [syn: distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome]
n. the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, torment, bedevilment]
the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes; "vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw"
Usage examples of "worrying".
That impression, however, he desired to deepen, and whilst Armand was worrying his brain to find a plausible excuse for going away, de Batz was racking his to find one for keeping him here.
But if I find them giving themselves airs, or monopolizing my father, or at all ill-treating him, or worrying him with their artistic beastliness, I intend to put my foot down, yes, firmly.
She was continually worrying over rattlesnakes and diphtheria and pneumonia, and begging Brit to sell out and live in town.
Do me a favour, Miss Mallow, put them back on and start pretending you are forty or so again, so I can stop worrying about you.
Stephen was sitting on the capstan, eating a mangosteen and staring at the mongoose as it played with his handkerchief, tossing it up, catching it, worrying it to death.
Kirk had given up worrying about the growing intimacy between Maslin and Uhura.
No more getting up at five in the morning to drive to the studio, no more worrying about every new line on my face, no more exercises to save my gluteus medius, no more punishment.
We lay awake at night, worrying lest the ewes should overlie their lambs, and we got up again and again to see that all was well.
My own mother sat alone on Bobolink Drive all day, talking to her parakeet, Petey, and worrying about dead children.
An appearance hereabouts of Inspector Machecoul from Renseignements Generaux, worrying about security, would simply alert some eager little aide de camp to the need for same.
Too bad, with Sarge and myself waiting so patiently to hear what was worrying the old coot.
She and Silvan had been worrying for months about Drustan wedding the Elliott lass.
Liko, who had been anxiously worrying his bone, was up on his legs whining, sniffing, and looking back and forth between Soli and me.
But what made Roelm go from worrying over malfunctioning transductors to accusations of sabotage?
Ted Worley, who just moments earlier had been minding his own business and watching his beloved Orioles, would now spend the rest of that night and most of the next week worrying about tumors growing wild in his bladder.