worry
Significado
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- To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- To harass; to irritate or distress.
- To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
- (obsolete) To strangle.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈwʌɹi/
Etimoloxía
From Middle English worien, werien, wirien, wirwen, wyryȝen (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyrġan, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit वृहति (vṛhati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.
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