Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Teasing; troubling; harassing; fatiguing: as, a worrying day.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Inducing worry.
  • verb Present participle of worry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective causing distress or worry or anxiety
  • noun the act of harassing someone
  • noun the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes

Etymologies

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worry +‎ -ing

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