Worriment
(Wor"ri*ment) n. [See Worry.] Trouble; anxiety; worry. [Colloq. U. S.]
Worrisome
(Wor"ri*some) a. Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.
Worrit
(Wor"rit) v. t. To worry; to annoy. [Illiterate]
Worrit
(Wor"rit), n. Worry; anxiety. [Illiterate]
Worry
(Wor"ry) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Worrying.] [OE. worowen, wirien, to
strangle, AS. wyrgan in awyrgan; akin to D. worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen,
Lith. verszti, and perhaps to E. wring.]
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. [Colloq.]
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.
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.
Worryingly
(Wor"ry*ing*ly), adv. In a worrying manner.
Worse
(Worse) a., compar. of Bad. [OE. werse, worse, wurse, AS. wiersa, wyrsa, a comparative
with no corresponding positive; akin to OS. wirsa, OFries. wirra, OHG. wirsiro, Icel. verri, Sw. värre,
Dan. värre, Goth. waírsiza, and probably to OHG. werran to bring into confusion, E. war, and L. verrere
to sweep, sweep along. As bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are used in lieu
of them, although etymologically they have no relation to bad.] Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater
degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; — used both in a physical and
moral sense.
Or worse, if men worse can devise.
Chaucer.
[She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.
Mark v. 26.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.
2 Tim. iii. 13.
There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse.
Rambler.
"But I love him." "Love him? Worse and worse."
Gay. Worse
(Worse), n.
1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat. "Judah was put to the worse before Israel." Kings xiv. 12.
2. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
