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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief;
- Example: "too upset to say anything"
- Example: "spent many disquieted moments"
- Example: "distressed about her son's leaving home"
- Example: "lapsed into disturbed sleep"
- Example: "worried parents"
- Example: "a worried frown"
- Example: "one last worried check of the sleeping children"
[syn: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried]

2. mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc;
- Example: "apprehensive about her job"
- Example: "not used to a city and worried about small things"
- Example: "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
[syn: apprehensive, worried]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Worry \Wor"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worried; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Worrying.] [OE. worowen, wirien, to strangle, AS. wyrgan in
   [=a]wyrgan; akin to D. worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG.
   wurgen, G. w["u]rgen, Lith. verszti, and perhaps to E.
   wring.]
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   1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly;
      also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
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            A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death;
            That dog that had his teeth before his eyes,
            To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. --Shak.
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   2. To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an
      anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret;
      to trouble; to plague. "A church worried with
      reformation." --South.
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            Let them rail,
            And worry one another at their pleasure. --Rowe.
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            Worry him out till he gives consent.  --Swift.
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   3. To harass with labor; to fatigue. [Colloq.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

worried
    adj 1: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble
           or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many
           disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving
           home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents";
           "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the
           sleeping children" [syn: disquieted, distressed,
           disturbed, upset, worried]
    2: mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc;
       "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried
       about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the
       consequences" [syn: apprehensive, worried]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "worried":
   annoyed, anxious, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bothered,
   bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, distracted, distrait,
   distressed, dogged, embarrassed, fretted, harassed, harried,
   haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, inconvenienced, irked,
   needled, nipped at, persecuted, perturbed, pestered, picked on,
   plagued, put to it, puzzled, ragged, sore beset, teased, tormented,
   troubled, vexed, worried sick, worried stiff