worrying

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

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Inducing worry.

adjective

1
Inducing worry.
Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.
Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."

Etymology

From worry + -ing.

verb

1
Also a form of worrypresent participle and gerund of worry

noun

1
The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

Etymology

From Middle English werying, equivalent to worry + -ing.

Forms

plural: worryings
comparative: more worrying
superlative: most worrying

worn · Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.worried · Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that…worry · To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.

worrying · Inducing worry.

worse · Less skillfully.worship · The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.Worship · A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries

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