Usually means: Anxiety about potential future problems.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. worry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. worry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. worry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. worry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. worry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Worry, worry: Wordnik
  7. worry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. worry: Wiktionary
  9. worry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. worry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. worry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. worry: Dictionary.com
  13. worry (n.), worry (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. worry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Worry. (album), Worry (disambiguation), Worry (emotion), Worry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Worry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. worry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. worry: Rhymezone
  19. worry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. worry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WORRY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. worry: Free Dictionary
  23. worry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. worry: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. worry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. worry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Worry: Merck Manuals
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worry: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. worry, worry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. worry: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
verb:  (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
verb:  (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
verb:  (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
verb:  (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
noun:  A strong feeling of anxiety.
noun:  An instance or cause of such a feeling.
noun:  A person who causes worry.

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