worry
verb
[ ˈwʌri ]
• feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.
• "he worried about his soldier sons in the war"
Similar:
fret,
be worried,
be concerned,
be anxious,
agonize,
brood,
dwell on,
panic,
get in a panic,
lose sleep,
get worked up,
get in a fluster,
get overwrought,
be on tenterhooks,
get stressed,
get in a flap,
get in a state,
get in a tizz/tizzy,
get in a sweat,
sweat,
get steamed up,
get in a lather,
stew,
torture oneself,
torment oneself,
be in a blue funk,
alarming,
concerning,
worrisome,
daunting,
perturbing,
trying,
taxing,
vexatious,
niggling,
bothersome,
troublesome,
unsettling,
harassing,
harrying,
harrowing,
nerve-racking,
distressing,
dismaying,
disquieting,
upsetting,
traumatic,
unpleasant,
awkward,
difficult,
tricky,
thorny,
problematic,
grave,
scary,
hairy,
sticky,
prickly,
anxious-making,
• (of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at or pull about with the teeth.
• "I found my dog contentedly worrying a bone"
worry
noun
• the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems.
• "he's demented with worry"
Similar:
anxiety,
disturbance,
perturbation,
trouble,
bother,
distress,
concern,
care,
upset,
uneasiness,
unease,
disquiet,
disquietude,
disconcertment,
fretfulness,
restlessness,
nervousness,
nerves,
agitation,
edginess,
tension,
tenseness,
stress,
strain,
apprehension,
fear,
fearfulness,
dread,
foreboding,
trepidation,
misgiving,
angst,
butterflies (in the stomach),
the willies,
the heebie-jeebies,
the shakes,
the jumps,
jitteriness,
twitchiness,
Origin:
Old English wyrgan ‘strangle’, of West Germanic origin. In Middle English the original sense of the verb gave rise to the meaning ‘seize by the throat and tear’, later figuratively ‘harass’, whence ‘cause anxiety to’ (early 19th century, the date also of the noun).
