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beworry

verb
/bɪˈwʌɹi/

Etymology

From be- + worry.

  1. derived from *werǵʰ-✻ — “bind, squeeze”
  2. inherited from *wurgijaną✻
  3. inherited from wyrġan
  4. inherited from worien
  5. prefixed as beworry — “be + worry”

Definitions

  1. To worry about.

  2. To fill with worry

    To fill with worry; cause to be worried; beset with cares; trouble; vex; harass.

    • Is there a death ? — it is no easy matter for an editor to select from the bundle of elegies he receives. Is there a shipwreck or any great national event ? — and the poor beworried nine are called upon to inspire a thousand pens, [...]
    • Here the much beworried mamma will get a short respite from the ever-recurring bothers of household cares; [...]
    • [...] and yet it is intended to establish a Convention, an extra-constitutional machine, to set all the machinery of a general election in motion again for the purpose of altering this much-beworried Constitution, [...]

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Derived

beworried

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA