adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an anxious/troubled/worried expression
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She stood looking at me with an anxious expression.
desperately unhappy/lonely/worried etc
seriously worried
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Hazel was now seriously worried.
unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc
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She doesn’t seem unduly concerned about her exams.
worried/anxious
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My father watched us go with a worried face.
worried/concerned/anxious etc lest ...
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He paused, afraid lest he say too much.
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She worried lest he should tell someone what had happened.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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I didn't blame him, and I didn't doubt that he was also worried about me.
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The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall's bureaucracy.
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She was also worried about having to manage the farm by herself again.
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He was also worried in case that fat little manager came round to check up on him.
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Noreen was also worried about having Maria up so late - she was after all, just turned eleven.
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People are also worried about the general effect of the new station on their community.
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National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult.
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People were also worried that electro-magnetic fields could destroy the body's resistance to infection.
desperately
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Your parents are desperately worried , and no wonder.
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Derek returned home a desperately worried person.
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All this time I was desperately worried about my family.
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The lawyer was desperately worried about his friend Doctor Jekyll.
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She felt insecure, unsure of the future and desperately worried about Steve and Maria Luisa.
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Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime.
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Male speaker I am desperately worried that the aid won't get tothe people it's meant for.
how
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He wasn't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann.
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She wasn't at all good at concealing how worried she was for his safety.
increasingly
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Social-security ministers, increasingly worried about the growth in single motherhood, find it hard to know what to do about it.
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Val was becoming increasingly worried by the spate of vicious attacks on horses.
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From the shelter of Tiger Haven, Billy became increasingly worried about the fate of the cubs.
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Read in studio Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who's been missing for three days.
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He's nervous, on edge, increasingly worried .
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Faith looked increasingly worried as the day went by.
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As he lay on the floor of the Boesch's simple straw-covered house, moaning and groaning, I grew increasingly worried .
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Business experts in the town are now increasingly worried about Swindon's future without a development focus.
more
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Even so it seems the Czechs are more worried about the tie than Airdrie.
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I was worried , more worried than I'd have admitted.
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She was younger, thinner, more worried .
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I was more worried that he might fall over and hurt himself.
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The others are ten times more worried than you are.
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And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover.
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And the victims' relatives found policemen more worried about where the next beer was coming from, than catching killers.
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I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment, when I was more worried about myself than I am now.
particularly
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Leivi is particularly worried by the high levels of phosphorous and nitrogen in the animals' droppings, which seep into groundwater.
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She is particularly worried that a freeze on public sector pay will cause outcry among doctors, nurses and hospital workers.
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The council is particularly worried by the existence of planning permission for quarrying so far unused.
really
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Twelve months on, Sir Angus is not really worried on either score.
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If I didn't know, I'd have thought she was really worried .
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By the third tee I was really worried .
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She says he was never really worried about compensation, he just wanted the truth.
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She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying.
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The hydrofoil had done four return journeys before its driver began to get really worried .
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Her great distress really worried him.
seriously
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There was no sign of her at tea-time, and I began to be seriously worried .
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We were seriously worried , for he was neither young nor fit, and his morale was terribly low.
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Both major parties were seriously worried by the situation.
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For the first time, Giles became seriously worried .
so
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Catherine seemed to be unconscious, and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment.
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The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time, and had X-ray examinations, and I was so worried .
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But I was so worried , Meg.
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I was just so worried and I've been phoning everyone.
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Don't look so worried , they're serious.
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It had been when she was so worried about Bob overstretching himself never being off duty and relaxed.
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I suppose I could, once Mum's had her operation - he won't be so worried then.
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Why did she feel so worried ?
still
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We are still worried about the groundwater mystery, however.
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Afterwards, if you're still worried about what it all means, read the reviews.
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We are still worried about quality, however - the change in the nature of the relationship between research and teaching.
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If you're still worried , do contact your doctor.
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If you are still worried , then play safe and go to the nearest source of help.
too
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When it went 0-1, I wasn't too worried .
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But are we becoming too worried ?
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Some former foster parents were not too worried about continuity of contact.
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As he told the story, he did not seem too worried .
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Since they are working on the wrong side of the law anyway, they're not too worried .
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But Jack was too worried to try to work it out.
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He really wasn't too worried about this revival, in spite of the casting of Ingrid and Therese.
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She posted Gay's letter on the way, but was too worried now to think much about it.
very
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Nutty, very worried , wondered what Nails' strategy would prove to be.
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We are very worried about our future.
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He's very worried about drought and very enterprising.
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Anyway, she seemed to be very worried about the state of the market: recession and all that.
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She says that they are very worried about him.
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He was very worried about the lack of progress with recruiting the people on his list.
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As a result, she became very worried about him.
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Can he say anything this afternoon that will enable me to reassure my very worried constituents?
■ NOUN
frown
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There was just that constant tiny worried frown between her brows to show the strain.
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Tension showed in the tight line of Amelie's mouth, the worried frown between her eyes and her new thinness.
look
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The worried look on Jannie's face softened.
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They were getting that worried look you see on people's faces on the Tube.
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Marie and Peter are watching me with a sort of worried look on their face.
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I was awarded seventeen points out of twenty but judging by the worried looks and furrowed brows there were some lower scores.
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He bowed to Burun, a worried look on his face.
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When he had finished he had a worried look on his face.
sick
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I've been worried sick about you.
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They'd have been worried sick about her, and what could they do so many miles away?
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My dear Carolyn, Your father and I are worried sick about you.
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Look, your poor mum's been worried sick .
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We were worried sick about it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be worried sick/be sick with worry
bored/scared/worried stiff
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And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
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Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff .
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He was scared stiff , thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
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He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
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Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
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Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff .
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We looked at each other, scared stiff , but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dave could see how worried she was, and he tried to reassure her.
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Helen looked at me with a worried expression.
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I'm getting worried because my account still hasn't registered a check I deposited a while ago.
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I'm not really worried about how much it will cost.
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I was worried if I washed it, it might shrink.
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Marion was worried about losing her job.
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She had such a worried look on her face!
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She rushed to the station, worried that she might miss her train.
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We're very worried about Grandma.
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What's wrong? You look worried .
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You look worried - what's the matter?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And is it because of them that you're worried about the future - do you get depressed as a grandparent?
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He's very worried about drought and very enterprising.
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He too was worried that he had been unfair to Angel.
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Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel.
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She says she does get worried that she might miss a change.
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They were getting that worried look you see on people's faces on the Tube.
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We are worried that we can't provide the level we have provided in the past.