Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of worrying.
- noun A source of anxiety; a worry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Trouble; anxiety; worry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. U. S. Trouble; anxiety; worry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
worrying . - noun A worrying situation or thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a difficulty that causes anxiety
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Examples
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And Jees Uck looked on in worriment, for she knew his kindred talked with him across the world.
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And Jees Uck looked on in worriment, for she knew his kindred talked with him across the world.
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Because Mom had never known need or a day of worriment while he lived, and had he lived, she might never have known them; but hi some way she seemed convinced that he knew, trouble by trouble, scrape by scrape, humiliation by hardship, what she was going through, and inside, she seemed to feel as a woman might whose man was steadily beating the love out of her and all the tolerance.
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The short story is successful in that, certainly, feeding us a sense of loss and worriment, and it is well written, but I found myself a little confused at times.
Not #40, alas pabba 2008
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On "easy" writing: "I cannot write with ease or fluency, worse luck, and the fluenter the thing looks from the outside the more worriment and sweat it is for me to evolve".
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On "easy" writing: "I cannot write with ease or fluency, worse luck, and the fluenter the thing looks from the outside the more worriment and sweat it is for me to evolve".
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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"But I am no Norseman," rumbled the giant in worriment.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Make that observation in a speech, and each member of your audience will frown and nod, joining in the general worriment.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Make that observation in a speech, and each member of your audience will frown and nod, joining in the general worriment.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Nick left Roger Smith to his worriment and returned to his own office, certain now that Dave Trimble had either planted the bugs himself, while he was grieving all over this dump, or he used a mule.
The Honor Farm John Westermann 1996
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