verb
- Be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy.
- usage: "I worry about my job"
- synonyms: worry
- Be concerned with.
- usage: "I worry about my grades"
- Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
- usage: "I cannot sleep-my daughter's health is worrying me"
- Be on the mind of.
- usage: "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
- Lacerate by biting.
- usage: "the dog worried his bone"
- synonyms: worry
- Touch or rub constantly.
- usage: "The old man worried his beads"
- synonyms: worry
adjective
- Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
- usage: "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children"
- synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset
- Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc.
- usage: "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
- synonyms: apprehensive
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