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Worry

verb

(past & past part. worried; pres. part. worrying)

1.

Be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy.

2.

Be concerned with. Synonym: care.

3.

Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress. Synonym: vex.

4.

Be on the mind of. Synonyms: concern, interest, occupy.

5.

Lacerate by biting.

6.

Touch or rub constantly.

noun

(pl. worries)

1.

Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness. Synonyms: concern, headache, vexation. "It's a major worry"

2.

A strong feeling of anxiety. Synonym: trouble. "It is not work but worry that kills" , "He wanted to die and end his troubles"

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"Worry" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am—heaven help me!" Nick broke out, tossing his hat down on his little tin table with vehemence. "I'm a freak of nature and a sport of the mocking gods. Why should they go out of their way to worry me? Why should they do everything so inconsequent, so improbable, so preposterous? It's the vulgarest practical joke. There has never been anything of the sort among us; we're all Philistines to the core, with about as much esthetic sense as that hat. It's excellent soil—I don't complain of it—but ...

— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

... he avoids and fears that satiety which lies in ambush for every narrative, and takes the hearer from one subject to another, and relieves by novelty the possibility of being surfeited. But the talkative worry one's ears to death with their tautologies, as people scribble the same things over and over again ...

— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch

... northern lands," he observed. "This creature is a peccary; and though it is of no great size, it is one of the most savage little animals in existence. A herd of them will run down a jaguar; and though he may slay a few with his paws, they will soon worry him to death with their sharp tusks, having nothing like fear in their composition. We will take the precaution of securing it before we haul it out, or it will be sure to do some ...

— The Wanderers - Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco • W.H.G. Kingston

... you, were to worry or kill the cat, for instance, then the cat would be called THE VICTIM OF YOUR CRUELTY; and in the same manner the eight little Victims I am going to tell you about were the victims of the whims and cruel prejudices of those who had the charge ...

— Aunt Judy's Tales • Mrs Alfred Gatty

... through his mind. That deep intellect, so given to analyze, meditate, generalize, from childhood upward, according to the relative capacity of age, was ever busy with the great problems of life. It has been seen that he began to worry even his nurses with childish questions, and afterward much more to embarrass his tutors, masters etc., and especially the excellent Dr. Glenny at Dulwich. A natural tendency fortified by early religious ...

— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

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