worm
verb/wɜːm/
/wɜːrm/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they worm | /wɜːm/ /wɜːrm/ |
| he / she / it worms | /wɜːmz/ /wɜːrmz/ |
| past simple wormed | /wɜːmd/ /wɜːrmd/ |
| past participle wormed | /wɜːmd/ /wɜːrmd/ |
| -ing form worming | /ˈwɜːmɪŋ/ /ˈwɜːrmɪŋ/ |
- worm your way + adv./prep. to use a twisting and turning movement, especially to move through a narrow or crowded place
- She wormed her way through the crowd to the reception desk.
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- worm something to give an animal medicine that makes worms pass out of its body in the faeces
Word OriginOld English wyrm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Latin vermis ‘worm’ and Greek rhomox ‘woodworm’.
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