Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Teasing; troubling; harassing; fatiguing: as, a worrying day.
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- 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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Examples
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KELEMAN: She's the senior researcher on Rwanda for Human Rights Watch, which has documented what it calls a worrying pattern of intimidation ahead of today's vote.
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KELEMAN: She's the senior researcher on Rwanda for Human Rights Watch, which has documented what it calls a worrying pattern of intimidation ahead of today's vote.
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Bella engaged in a great deal of what she called worrying about Dike.
One Basket Edna Ferber 1926
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Bella engaged in a great deal of what she called worrying about Dike.
Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926
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In what she described as a "worrying" development, following the ruling, it is becoming more difficult for asylum seekers to "prove" to the authorities that they are homosexual.
The Guardian World News Karen McVeigh 2011
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Some time ago, my friend and me concluded that worrying is our number one hobby, so I guess I got a perfect excuse to indulge my "need for worrying".
Car Darwi 2009
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But worrying is that the SNP Government is apparently behind on its own Holyrood patch, a patch where it controls the agenda, and only a few months ago it was comfortably ahead.
There ain't no cure for these SNP blues? Alan Smart 2009
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But worrying is that the SNP Government is apparently behind on its own Holyrood patch, a patch where it controls the agenda, and only a few months ago it was comfortably ahead.
Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009
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Most worrying is the liability who stands to inherit the presidency if anything happens to Obama.
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What I found worrying is that a doctor of all things could ask such a fallacy without seeing the logical errors in it.
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One of the great benefits for me is I no longer have the ‘worrying ladder’ – my two daughters were worrying about me being on my own and so then I started worrying about them worrying. All that’s gone now.
‘We have brothers, sons, lovers – but they can’t live here!’ The happy home shared by 26 women Anita Chaudhuri 2023
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