- adjectiveworrying (adjective)
- causing anxiety about actual or potential problems; alarming:"a worrying health risk"
verbworrying (present participle)- give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles:"he worried about his soldier sons in the war" · "I began to worry whether I had done the right thing"
- cause annoyance to:"the noise never really stops, but it doesn't worry me"
- cause to feel anxiety or concern:"there was no need to worry her" · "I've been worrying myself sick over my mother"
- (of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at, gnaw on, or drag around with the teeth:"I found my dog contentedly worrying a bone"
- (of a dog) chase and attack (livestock, especially sheep):"a farmer shot a dog that had been worrying sheep"
OriginOld English wyrgan ‘strangle’, of West Germanic origin. In Middle English the original sense of the verb gave rise to the meaning ‘seize by the throat and tear’, later figuratively ‘harass’, whence ‘cause anxiety to’ (early 19th century, the date also of the noun).Similar and Opposite Words
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