Worry

Definition: Worry

Worry

Noun

1. Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry".

2. A strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles".

Verb

1. Be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy.

2. Be concerned with; "I worry about my grades".

3. Disturb the peace of mind of.

4. Think moodily or anxiously about something.

5. Be on the mind of; "What is worrying you?".

6. Lacerate by biting; of dogs.

7. Touch or rub constantly; "The old man worried his beads".

8. Be concerned with or about something or somebody.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "worry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Worry \Wor"ry\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Worried; Worrying.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

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Synonyms: Worry

Discontent

Inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear.

Fear

Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair.

Malevolence

Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.

Pain

Sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark.

Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre; mauvais quart d'heur.

Crosswords: Worry

German (Aerger).

And don't worry about the vase (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Dont worry about it. We're just having coffee (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

I get it. Don't worry, I'd probably have done the same thing (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

He said we didn't have to worry about money no more, and that's good (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

But don't worry, be happy ("Don't Worry Be Happy"; performing artist: Bobby McFerrin)

Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama (Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

There's no need to worry no. (I Care 4 U; performing artist: Aaliyah)

NO NEED TO WORRY COS ALL SAINTS WILL BE AROUND (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

Just wanna tell you don't worry (The Call; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. (references; author: unknown)

If you have time to worry, you have time to pray. (references; author: unknown)

Worry pulls tomorrow's cloud over today's sunshine. (references; author: unknown)

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. (references; author: unknown)

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed. (references; author: unknown)

Don't Worry (1924)

Why Worry! (1918)

We Should Worry (1918)

Captain Jinks Should Worry (1916)

We Should Worry for Auntie (1915)

OPUS 17 (DON't YOU WORRY ABOUT ME)� (performing artist: Four Seasons� )

The Remedy (I Don't Worry) (performing artist: JASON MRAZ)

Feels So Good (Don't Worry Bout A Thing) (performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing (performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

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Books

• Seven Steps to Help Your Child Worry Less: A Family Guide (Seven Steps Family Guides Series) (reference)

• The Worry Stone (reference)

• The Worry Workbook: Twelve Steps to Anxiety-Free Living (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Freedom From Worry (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Don't Worry About Me (reference)

• Don't Worry, Be Happy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Don't worry about what you'll pick up at work. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Inviting the undertaker. Hitch a ride on the rear of a truck. Worry the driver... Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't worry Charlie, I can take it!. Credit: Library of Congress.

I never worry about bridges 'till I get to 'em!. Credit: Library of Congress.

There ain't no cause to worry, Henrietta : if they hit ye, ye kin git damages ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Why worry about a ceiling at all?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Well -- we won't have to worry about riots on our beaches!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't you folks worry about us none, we're just looking for a hydrogen bomb. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Cheer up, old top; you've got nothing to worry about!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Have you ever wondered just where this country is going? : we worry about it all the time : NDP, the new party. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But the unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might have done, there were so many other things to attend to.

She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment

He spoke loudly, for a load of worry was lifted from him.

Why will men worry themselves so

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Health

You should not worry about having a hiatal hernia. (references)

Are you contagious? People often worry that ALPS is catching. (references)

You no longer have to worry about periods or getting pregnant. (references)

Business

Under a fleet leasing arrangement, the lessee is able to utilize assets to their fullest without having to worry about maintenance or other administrative work involved. (references)

The wind map of Argentina is outdated and incomplete, a major complaint of sector specialists, who worry about the government’s apparent lack of concern for the industry. (references)

However, the Chinese government chooses the companies for its national projects based on cost. The government prefers to choose from foreign companies since they do not have to worry about the value-added tax or import taxes. (references)

Children

China

The minimum age for adopting a healthy child is now set at 30 instead of 35. Some observers worry that the law, which became effective in 1999, may eliminate the age-based incentive for the adoption of children with special needs. (references)

Economic History

Poland

Even then, some distributors worry that they may not get adequate support. (references)

Ireland

Related to the inflation worry are the growing labor shortages in Ireland. (references)

Trade

Syria

Foreign importers of Syrian goods need not worry about Syrian export controls, as there are experienced local shipping agents who can take charge of all export responsibilities. (references)

Germany

In some cases, U.S. firms, e.g., in the automotive or pharmaceutical sectors, will have to worry about complying with the specific requirements of all applicable "Old Approach" product-specific EU technical legislation. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "worry": become a worry to smb. ♦ care worry ♦ not to worry ♦ worry about ♦ worry along ♦ worry along through smth. ♦ worry at ♦ worry beads ♦ worry line ♦ worry oneself ♦ worry out ♦ worry smb. into a decision ♦ worry smb. out of smth. ♦ you worry too much!. Additional references.

Beginning with "worry": worry-beads, worry-eater, worry-free, worry-gut, worry-lines, worry-sweat, worry-time.

Containing "worry": don't-worry-you-won't-capsize.

Afrikaans

sorg (care, see, take, take care). (various references)

Albanian

telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, load, mess, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex), shqetësohem (care, fash, feeze, fluster, fret, fuss about, get excited, go off the deep end, take on, trouble), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation), qeder (damage, grieve), ngacmon, merakosem (get excited), merak (anxiety, care, carefulness, concern, disturbance, pains, preoccupation, stew, unrest), kap me dhëmbë, kam gajle (be anxious, trouble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هم (care, concern, matter, reck, solicitude, their, them, they, those, trouble), ‏ناضل (agonize, buffet, combat, contend, contest, fight, heave, militate, ply, pursue, push, strive, struggle, tug, wrestle), ‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried), ‏تقدم بجهد, ‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble), ‏تدبر الأمر (coming out well), ‏سحب الحيوان بالأسنان حتى يموت, ‏خنق (asphyxiate, choke, flummox, garrote, neck, overlay, overpower, sizzle, stifle, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stultify, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling), ‏جهد (dint, effort, exert, exertion, labor, labour, overload, overstrain, overwork, pain, pressure, spirt, spurt, strain, stress, tension), ‏القلق (concern, restlessness), ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset), ‏بلاء (curse, hardship, ill, illness, inflexion, infliction, ordeal, plague, sore, trouble), ‏برم (bore, boredom, impatient, lay, querulous, tire, twirl). (various references)

Bulgarian 

не давам спокойствие, давя (bait, choke, drown, strangle), дразня (annoy, bait, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, fuss, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, mad, madden, nag, niggle, nip, offend, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, rub, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex), душене (cast, sniff, stranglehold), причина за безпокойство, причина за тревога, безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit), давене (gulp), не давам мира, хапя (bite, nibble, nip, savage), неприятности (disagreeables, moil), нямам мира, нямам спокойствие, грижа (attention, care, concern, custody, heed, keeping, look out, oversight, regard, solicitude, study, tendance, trouble, worriment, worrit), тормозя (badger, bait, bedevil, bully, chivy, excruciate, fret, harass, hunt down, jade, murder, persecute, pester, pick on, plague, play up, prey, push, put upon, rack, rag, ride, scourge), тревожа (ail, alarm, disturb, exercise, fuss, perturb, put about, weigh on, worrit), тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, fluster, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment), безпокоя (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, chivy, discompose, disturb, exercise, fash, feeze, gall, inconvenience, molest, pother, put about, vex). (various references)

Chinese 

虞 (forewarned, peace, tiger), 著急 (feel anxious), 纏繞 (intertwine, vex), 愀 (change countenance), �""懮 (anxiety), �""憂 , �""心 (anxious, to be anxious, to worry, uneasy, worried), 患 (danger, misfortune, suffer, to contract, trouble), �' (anxiety), 使煩惱 , 心事 (a load on one's mind), 忧虑 (Anxieties, Anxiety, Apprehension, fraught). (various references)

Czech

pùsobit starosti, bát se (be afraid, fear, suspect), hryzat (gnaw, twinge), neklid (alarm, anxiety, discomfort, disquiet, ferment, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, malaise, uneasiness, unrest), obávat se (be afraid, fear, misgive), obavy, úzkost (alarm, anguish, anxiety, apprehension, care, distress, heartache), otravovat (annoy, bore, bother, bug, hassle, nag, nark, peeve, pester), znepokojovat (annoy, disturb, harass, perturb, trouble), sápání, soužení (ordeal, tribulation, trouble, vexation), starosti (anxieties, trouble), trápení (care, harassment, misery, plague, suffering, torment, torture, trouble, vexation), trápit (afflict, agonize, ail, bait, beset, bother, discommode, disgruntle, grieve, nag, pain, pester, plague, pother, rack, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, vex), trhat (blast, gather, mammock, pick, pick(up), pluck, scarify, tug), obtìžovat (accost, annoy, bother, harass, haunt, incommode, inconvenience, interfere, intrude, molest, pester, push, tackle, trouble). (various references)

Dutch

zorgen (care, see, take care, worries), zich bekommeren (care, see, take care). (various references)

Esperanto

zorgi (care, see, take care), ĉagreni (annoy, grieve, vex). (various references)

Faeroese

syrgja fyri (care, see, take care), leggja seg eftir (care, see, take care), ansa eftir (away we go, care, guard, keep, let's start, look after, nurse, see, take care, watch over). (various references)

Farsi 

نگرانی (Anxiety, Pine, Solicitude, Stew, Umbrage), نگران کردن (Anguish), اندیشه (Anxiety, Idea, Mentality, Notion, Opinion, Plan, Reflection, Solicitude, Thought), اندیشناکی , اندیشناک کردن یابودن , اضطراب (Anguish, Anxiety, Commotion, Feeze, Unrest), اذیت کردن (Annoy, Badger, Bedevil, Grieve, Grind, Harass, Hock, Hurt, Indemnify, Needle, Offend, Pester, Tease), دلواپسی (Turpitude), بستوه اوردن (Annoy, Beset, Harass, Hare, Harry, Haze, Hurry, Pester, Plague). (various references)

Finnish

huolehtia (arrange, attend to, be anxious, care, look after, see, see to, take care). (various references)

French

chagriner. (various references)

German

sorgen (be accustomed, be in the habit, care, care for, cares, cater, ensure, fend, look after, pains, provide, see, solicitudes, sorrows, supply, take care, tend, worries), Sorge (alarm, anxiety, anxiousness, care, concern, distress, problem, sorrow, trouble), bekümmern (afflict, annoy, grieve, trouble, vex). (various references)

Greek 

έννοια (comprehension, concept, connotation, construction, implication, meaning, notion, sense), σκοτούρα (care, care worry, trouble), σκοτίζω (bedim, bother), σκοτίζομαι (bother), στενοχώρια (harassment, inconvenience, perplexity, pinch, straits, tryingness), στενοχωρώ (chagrin, embarrass, faze, get down, pinch, put out, straiten, trouble, weary), στενοχωριέμαι (fret), στενοχωρούμαι (repine), βασανίζω (afflict, agonize, bait, bedevil, excruciate, flay, harass, obsess, pester, plague, prey on, rack, scourge, torment, torture), μπελάσ (nuisance, trouble), παιδεύω (castigate, chasten, chastise, pester), ανησυχώ (concern, concern about, disquiet, squirm, stew), ανησυχία (anxiety, apprehension, concern, concernment, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, nervousness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחוש (be anxious, feel, perceive, sense), ל�"יות חר�" ל-, ל�"�"אי�' (concern, perturb, trouble, upset), ל�"או�' (be anxious, be concerned, dread, fear, fret), �"תלבטות (exertion, wandering about), �"א�'ת� ות (anxiety, anxiousness, disquiet), �"א�'�" (anxiety, care, concern, fear, solicitude), �"א�'. (various references)

Hungarian

aggodalom (alarm, anguish, anxiety, care, concern, disquietude, flutter, misgiving, misgivings). (various references)

Indonesian

tergesa-gesa (bustle, cursorily, haste, hie, hurry), kegelisahan (concern, discomfort, disquiet, nerve, nervousness, perturbation, unrest), kecemasan (anxiety), bergelisah. (various references)

Italian

fastidio (ado, annoyance, anxiety, bother, harassment, nuisance, sorrow, trouble, vexation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

懸念 (anxiety, concern, fear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きはい (giving up and turning back, indication, market trend), けはい (indication, market trend), けね�" (anxiety, concern, fear), ものあ�"じ (anxiety), やっかい (bother, burden, care, dependence, kindness, obligation, support, translating and explaining, trouble), ゆうか�" (bravery, distress, evening paper, gallantry, heroism, leisured, quiet and secluded, sorrow), わずらい (agony, illness, sickness, vexation), �"う�" (anxiety, excellent, finance corporation, fine, for ever, from ancient times, historic, looking back, love of antiquities, pertinent, the public, the world, unprecedented), �"ね�" (care, consideration), は�"も�" (agony, asking in return, cross-examination, retort, speckles), のうら�" (anguish), きがかり (anxiety, concern), し�"ろう (anxiety, bridegroom, fear, hardships, toil, trouble), し�"ぱい (anxiety, care, concern), し�"つう (heartache, mental agony), しょうりょ (impatience), くったく (care), きづかれ (boredom, mental fatigue), きづかい (concern, consideration, fear, solicitude), なやみ (agony, anguish, distress, problem, trouble), きぐろう (anxiety, care), つうし�" (communication, correspondence, heartache, news, signal). (various references)

Korean 

걱� � (Caring). (various references)

Manx

imnea (anxiety, care, concern, disquiet, nervousness, unease), cur imnea er (disquieten), boirey (aggrieve, annoy, bother, care, confuse, confusion, disconcert, disrupt, disruption, distract, distraction, disturb, embarrass, embarrassment, heartache, madden, molestation, niggle, nuisance, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, preoccupy, put upon, row, strife, trouble, vex, worrier). (various references)

Maya

tukl (to worry). (various references)

Papiamen

sòru (care, see, take care). (various references)

Pidgin English

worri (to worry). (various references)

Pig Latin

orryway.(various references)

Polish

troszczyć się (care, see, take care), dbać (care, see, take care). (various references)

Portuguese

preocupação (abstraction, canker, care, discomfort, pester, preoccupation, solicitude, trouble, uneasiness), afligir (afflict, aggrieve, ail, annoy, chagrin, distress, fret, gall, grieve, lacerate, oppress, pain, plague, press, sadden, torment, vex, weigh). (various references)

Romanian

necãji (anger, badger, bait, bother, crab, depress, dishearten, endeavor, endeavour, fret, gall, grieve, irritate, lark, molest, rile, spite, tease, trouble, vex), îngrijora (disquiet, disturb), îngrijorare (alarm, anxiety, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fear, inquietude, restlessness, thought, uneasiness), agasa (annoy, banter, chaff, irritate, ruffle, tease), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, wring), consuma (consume, corrode, destroy, exhaust, spend, take, use, waste), enerva (aggravate, annoy, chafe, fidget, gall, get on one's nerves, grieve, irritate, nettle, rasp, vex), fi îngrijorat, frãmânta (agitate, beat, brake, bustle, churn, debate, fret, fuss, knead, puddle, pug, ride, stamp, stir, temper, torment, torture), frãmântare (agitation, anxiety, discomposure, fermentation, fluster, flutter, fret, fretfulness, kneading, torture, trepidation, unrest), grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, mindfulness, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment), îngriji (attend, breed, care, doctor, groom, keep, nurse, raise, rear, see, take care, tend), motiv de îngrijorare, zbate (struggle), nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), nelinişti (discomfort, discompose, disquiet, flutter, fret, perturb, pother), perpeli (be upset, Fry, torture), plictisi (annoy, bore, bother, discommode, glut, irk, pall upon, pick on, plague, pother, trouble, weary, worry out), sâcâi (bother, harass, nag, nagnag), se îngrijora (care, see, take care), smuci (hitch, lug, pull up, tug, twitch, wrench), trage (absorb, booze, come, drag, drag in, drag out, draw, evolve, extract, fetch, fire, guzzle, haul, heave, hitch, lie, lug, pluck, pop, pull, pull up, rub, screw, shoot, strike off, suffer, tipple, toll, tug), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex), zãduf (oppressiveness, sultriness, trouble), hãrţui (dragoon, harass, infest, squabble, tease, wrangle). (various references)

Russian 

тревога (alarm, alert, angst, anxiety, disquiet, disquietude, trepidation), тревожиться (feel alarm), тормошить (bother), волноваться (be ~ nervios, be ~ nervious, be agitated, flutter, roll), надоедать (annoy, badger, bore, bother, irk, persecute, pester, trouble), беспокойство (ado, Angst, anxiety, bother, botheration, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, fidget, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, restlessness, taking, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, uneasyness, unrest), беспокоиться озабоченность, переживать (live through, outlast, outlive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabrinutost (care, feeze, preoccupation, solicitude, trouble, uneasiness), zabrinuti (concern, distress, disturb, trouble), strepnja (anxiety, pang, trepidation), nasekirati (bedevil, irk, upset, vex), griža (twinge), brinuti se (care about, mind), briga (bother, botheration, care, concern, trouble), biti zabrinut. (various references)

Sotho

tshwenyehe. (various references)

Spanish

preocuparse (bother, care, fuss, mind, trouble, upset), cuidar (attend, babysit, care, fondle, groom, look after, look to, mind, nurse, pay attention, reck, see, take care, tend, tend to). (various references)

Sranan

span (care, see, take care), sorgu (care, concern, see, take care). (various references)

Swedish

oroa (alarm, annoy, concern, discomfort, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distress, disturb, fret, irritate, niggle, perturb, perturbate, trouble, unsettle, upset), grämelse (dejection, grief, sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Tahitian

pe'ape'a (trouble). (various references)

Turkish

kaygı (anxiety, apprehension, care, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fear, fears, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude), ısırıp silkelemek, üzülmek (be troubled about, bother, bother about, deplore, feel bad about, feel badly about, fret, grieve, have the hump, languish, regret, rue, sadden, sorrow, trouble, worry oneself), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness), endişe etmek (apprehend, be anxious, fear), endişelendirmek (concern, disquiet, distress, disturb, fret, keep in suspense, perturb, preoccupy, put the wind up smb.), endişelenmek (be worried, bother about, care, feel uneasy about smth., fret, mind, stew, sweat blood, tremble), ısırıp silkeleme, karın ağrısı (bellyache, collywobbles, gastralgia, stomachache), zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impose, impress, lean upon, obligate, outrage, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, wrest), kaygılanmak, merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, care, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fad, fancy, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment), merak etmek (be anxious, be curious, care, wonder), merakta kalmak, rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bait, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail), rahatsız olmak (ail, be annoyed, be disturbed, be liverish, be troubled with, be uncomfortable, chafe, take alarm), silkeleme, sinirlenmek (be riled at, be steamed up, become angry, blow one's stack, bridle up, bristle up, cut up rough, flame up, flap, flare, flare out, get angry, get hot, get the willies, go off at half-cock, grow hot, jitter, lose one's temper), taciz etmek (abuse, annoy, discommode, harass, haze, molest), tedirgin olmak (be on thorns, feel uneasy about smth., sit on thorns, worry at), hırpalamak (batter, beat up, bruise, ill treat, ill use, jolt, knock about, knock around, maltreat, maul, misuse, punish, ruffle, work over). (various references)

Turkmen 

zowzuldamak, gaяgy etmek, darykmak, .Turkmen/Englis. (various references)

Ukrainian

розтерзання, хвилювати (affect, agitate, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, excite, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest), чіплятися (accost, arraign, badger, bully, carp, cavil, chicane, clamber, cling, nag, upbraid), турбувати (afflict, ail, annoy, commove, concern, derange, disoblige, embarrass, faze, gnaw, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, put about, work), турбота (anxiety, bother, care, charge, concern, inconvenience, preoccupation, solicitude, suspense, trouble, work), тривога (alarm, alert, anxiety, care, disquiet, tizzy, trepidation), тривожитися (care), терзати (bedevil, excruciate, lacerate, prey, rankle), клопоти (anxieties), неспокій (anxiety, bother, botheration, disquiet, fidget, inquietude, trouble, unquote, unrest), набридати (aggravate, bother, dun, interfere, persecute, tease, tire, weary), мучитися (tantalize), занепоко�"ність, журитися (bewail, condole). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lo lắng (fidgetiness, inquietude, thoughtfulness), điều lo nghĩ sự quấy rầy, điều l� m phiền. (various references)

Welsh

poeni (ache, ail, annoy, badger, grieve, pain, torment), pedi (grieve), helcyd (hunt, trouble). (various references)

kan. (various references)

commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit, cura, curabant, curabantur, curabat, curabimini, curabit, curabo, curabunt, curamini, curandi, curandum, curans, curantes, curare, curarem, curarentur, curaret, curaretur, curari, curas, curasset, curata, curatae, curate, curatus, curaverunt, curavimus, curavit, curem, cures, fatigo, intemptator, molesta, molestat, sollicita, sollicitabat, sollicitans, sollicitudo, tempta, temptabant, temptabat, temptabatur, temptabis, temptabit, temptabo, temptans, temptant, temptantes, temptantur, temptare, temptaret, temptaretur, temptari, temptasti, temptat, temptate, temptati, temptatis, temptator, temptatum, temptatur, temptatus, temptaverit, temptavero, temptaverunt, temptavi, temptavimus, temptavit, temptem, temptemini, temptemus, temptor. (various references)

bisgu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "worry": worrying, worrywart, worrywarts. (additional references)

Words ending with "worry": beworry. (additional references)

Words containing "worry": beworrying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Worry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fworr, Nourry, orry, Owerri, vorry, warcry, warrey, warri, weerry, werr, werry, wgry, wirry, wodri, wor, worny, worrd, worrie, Worrr, worsy, worty, wory, wrore, wrorh, wrr, wury. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: row, wry, yow.

-3 letters: or, ow, oy, wo, yo.

+1 letter: arrowy, yarrow.

+2 letters: beworry, furrowy, marrowy, yarrows.

+3 letters: armyworm, cowberry, narrowly, overwary, tryworks, worrying, yardwork.

+4 letters: airworthy, armyworms, crowberry, forwardly, frowardly, overweary, snowberry, wolfberry, worriedly, worrywart, yardworks.

+5 letters: beworrying, copywriter, cornerways, hydropower, roadworthy, rowanberry, worrywarts.