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worrying

noun

  1. fretting about possible outcomes
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adjective

  1. worry with direct object, causing worry, anxious about
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɹi.ɪŋ/ / /ˈwɝ.i.ɪŋ/ / /ˈwʊɹi.ɪŋ/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English worry English -ing English worrying From worry + -ing.

  1. Inducing worry.

    Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.

    Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."

noun

Etymology: From Middle English werying, equivalent to worry + -ing.

  1. The act of worrying or harassing somebody.

    There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English worry English -ing English worrying From worry + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of worry