To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack
repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. [1913 Webster]
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.
--Shak. [1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] Let them rail, And worry one another at their
pleasure. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] Worry him out till he gives
consent. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
To harass with labor; to fatigue. [Colloq.] [1913
Webster]
Worry \Wor"ry\, v. i. To feel or express undue
care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful;
to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries. [1913
Webster]
Worry \Wor"ry\, n.; pl. Worries. A state of undue
solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation;
anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry. "The whir and worry of spindle
and of loom." --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Word Net
worryNoun
1 something or someone that causes anxiety; a
source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern";
"it's a major worry" [syn: concern, headache, vexation]
2 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" [syn: trouble]
Verb
1 be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or
uneasy; "I worry about my job"
2 be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"
[syn: care]
3 disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with
mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health
is worrying me" [syn: vex]
[ant: reassure]
5 lacerate by biting; "the dog worried his
bone"
6 touch or rub constantly; "The old man worried
his beads" [also: worried]
Moby Thesaurus
ado, afflict, aggravate, aggravation, aggrieve, agitate, ail, anguish, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, bad news, badger, bait, be at, be the matter, bedevil, bedevilment, beleaguer, beset, besetment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, can of worms, care, carry on, chafe, chivy, complicate matters, concern, concernment, crashing bore, despair, devil, devilment, difficulty, disadvantage, discommode, discompose, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturb, dog, dogging, doubt, downer, drag, dun, evil, exasperate, exasperation, exercise, fash, fret, fret and fume, fretting, fuss, get, give up, gnaw, goad, great ado, gripe, harass, harassment, harry, harrying, haunt, headache, heartache, heckle, hector, hound, hounding, inconvenience, irk, matter, miff, mistrust, molest, molestation, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, nuisance, oppress, peck of troubles, peeve, pelt, perplex, persecute, persecution, perturb, pest, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, presentiment, problem, provoke, put out, put to it, puzzle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, sea of troubles, solicitude, stew, take on, tantalize, tease, test, torment, torture, trial, trouble, try, try the patience, tweak the nose, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, upset, vex, vexation, vexatiousness, woe, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrying, wrongEnglish
Verb
- In the context of "transitive|obsolete|except in Scots": To strangle.
- To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or
wolf.
- Your dog's been worrying sheep again.
- To harass; to
irritate or distress.
- The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.
- Disturb the peace of
mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
- Your tone of voice worries me.
- To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
- Stop worrying about your test, it'll be fine.
Translations
strangle
see strangle'''
seize or shake by the throat
harass, irritate
- Finnish: ärsyttää
- French: harceler
- Japanese: じらす
- Swedish: hetsa, ansätta, trakassera
disturb the peace of mind of
be troubled
- Bosnian: brinuti
- Catalan: preocupar-se, amoinar-se
- Czech: dělat starosti
- Ewe: tsi dzi
- Finnish: huolehtia , huolia
- French: s'inquiéter
- German: besorgt sein
- Hebrew: לדאוג (lid'og)
- Japanese: 心配する (shinpai suru)
- Serbian:
- Spanish: inquietarse, preocuparse, estar preocupado
- Swedish: oroa sig
- Telugu: చింతించు (chimtimchu)
Noun
Translations
worry
- Catalan: preocupació, angoixa
- Czech: starost
- Ewe: dzitsitsi
- Finnish: huoli (1,2), harmi (1,2)
- French: souci, angoisse
- German: Sorge
- Greek: ανησυχία, έγνοια, έννοια
- Hebrew: דאגה (de'aga)
- Hungarian: aggodalom
- Italian: preoccupazione
- Japanese: 心配 (shinpai)
- Kurdish: ترس
- Polish: zmartwienie
- Portuguese: preocupação
- Romanian: grijă
- Russian: беспокойство
- Spanish: preocupación, zozobra
- Swedish: oro , bekymmer , ängslan
- Telugu: చింత (chinta), దిగులు (digulu)
Scots
Verb
worry- In the context of "transitive|lang=sco": To strangle.
A well accepted theory of anxiety originally
posited by Liebert and Morris in 1967 suggests that anxiety consists of two
components; worry and emotionality. Emotionality
refers to physiological symptoms such as sweating, increased heart
beat and raised blood
pressure.
Worry refers to negative self-talk that often
distracts the mind from
focusing on the problem at hand. For example, when students become
anxious during a test, they may repeatedly tell themselves they are
going to fail, or they can't remember the material or that their
teacher will become angry with them. This thinking interferes with
focusing on the test as the speech areas of the brain that are
needed to complete test questions are being used for
worrying.
Worry can also refer to a feeling of concern
about someone else's condition. For instance, a mother may say "I'm
worried" if her child doesn't show up at home when he was supposed
to be there. It can also refer to certain actions or the lack of
those kind of actions. "I'm worried because she is not eating any
vegetables".
worry in Arabic: قلق
worry in Czech: Starost
worry in German: Sorge
worry in Spanish: Inquietud
worry in Dutch: Piekeren
worry in Russian:
Забота