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Worried

adjective

1.

Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief. Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset. "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"

2.

Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc. Synonym: apprehensive. "Not used to a city and worried about small things" , "Felt apprehensive about the consequences"

Worry

verb

(past & past part. worried; pres. part. worrying)

1.

Be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy.

2.

Be concerned with. Synonym: care.

3.

Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress. Synonym: vex.

4.

Be on the mind of. Synonyms: concern, interest, occupy.

5.

Lacerate by biting.

6.

Touch or rub constantly.

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"Worried" Quotes from Famous Books

... finally started. He became anxious and weary from long waiting, and after three stations were passed, he became nervous, and worried. ...

— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various

... rider, now another. Swift bit Buster, who reared while Douglas swore laughingly. Magpies swooped from the blue spruce at the edge of the corral, black and white against pale blue. The cattle, all Herefords, red and white, milled about and lowed and tossed worried heads. The riders, sheepskin chaps flapping, bright neckerchiefs fluttering, shouted and cursed and fingered their lariats. Dogs, yellow dogs, black dogs, gray dogs, spotted dogs, continuously encroached from without the fence and ...

— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... with Beauchamp, who had waylaid him and was hammering his part in the now endless altercation. It could be descried at any distance; and how fine was Mr. Romfrey's bearing!—truly noble by contrast, as of a grave big dog worried by a small barking dog. There is to an unsympathetic observer an intense vexatiousness in the exhibition of such pertinacity. To a soldier accustomed at a glance to estimate powers of attack and defence, this repeated puny assailing ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... war I have envied them. They are not suspicious or jealous; they are not worried, hurried, troubled, or afraid; they are oblivious of public opinion; they have no debts to pay; they do not weary you with explanations; they are not sorry for anything they have ever done; they are not blaming God for anything! ...

— The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder • Nellie L. McClung

... not have been otherwise. I want you to concentrate all your will-power to convince yourself of this. If I had let myself be persuaded to remain with you, after this great need for solitude had laid hold upon me, I should have worried and tormented you ...

— The Dangerous Age • Karin Michaelis

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