(worries, ~ing, worried)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~, you keep thinking about problems that you have or about unpleasant things that might happen.
Don’t ~, your luggage will come on afterwards by taxi...
I ~ about her constantly...
They ~ that extremists might gain control.
VERB: V, V about n/-ing, V that
2.
If someone or something worries you, they make you anxious because you keep thinking about problems or unpleasant things that might be connected with them.
I’m still in the early days of my recovery and that worries me...
‘Why didn’t you tell us?’—‘I didn’t want to ~ you.’...
VERB: V n, V n
3.
If someone or something does not ~ you, you do not dislike them or you are not annoyed by them. (SPOKEN)
The cold doesn’t ~ me...
= bother
VERB: oft with neg, V n
4.
Worry is the state or feeling of anxiety and unhappiness caused by the problems that you have or by thinking about unpleasant things that might happen.
His last years were overshadowed by financial ~.
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5.
A ~ is a problem that you keep thinking about and that makes you unhappy.
My main ~ was that Madeleine Johnson would still be there...
His wife Cheryl said she had no worries about his health.
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