Word Meanings - WORRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen, Lith. verszti, 1. 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

Additional info about word: WORRY

worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen, Lith. verszti, 1. 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. Shak. 2. 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. 3. To harass with labor; to fatigue.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORRY)

• Annoyance
• Trouble
• discomfort
• vexation
• worry
• nuisance
• bother
• uneasiness
• plague
• bore
• Bother
• Fuse
• pester
• excitement
• stir
• vex
• annoy
• tease
• confusion
• flurry
• trouble
• Chafe
• Gall
• rub
• irritate
• chagrin
• harass
• disappoint
• grieve
• calcitrate
• re sent
• resist
• fret
• fidget
• writhe
• Distress Harass
• embarrass
• mortify
• pain
• disturb
• afflict
• Disturb
• Derange
• discompose
• disorder
• discommode
• confuse
• rouse
• agitate
• interrupt
• incommode
• molest
• disquiet

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WORRY)

• Soothe
• compose
• quiet
• calm
• mesmerize
• Compose
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to WORRY)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• FIDGETY
  Restless; uneasy. Lowell.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• NUISANCE
  That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only. (more info) nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm;
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• INCOMMODE
  To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room. Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.