Definition of Worry

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Definition of Worry

Worry

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague.

To harass with labor; to fatigue.

To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.

A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.

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Worry Quotations

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mohandas Gandhi

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Steven Wright

Worry Translations

worry in Afrikaans is sorg
worry in Dutch is bezorgd zijn, zich bekommeren, zorgen
worry in Finnish is huolehtia
worry in German is klagen
worry in Italian is fastidio, stare in pensiero, disturba, arrabiare
worry in Latin is fatigo, sollicitudo
worry in Spanish is conturbar, enfadar, sinsabor, ajetrearse

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