Worm Definition

wûrm
wormed, worming, worms
noun
worms
Any of many slender, soft-bodied animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground, in water, or as parasites, including the annelids, nemerteans, nematodes, platyhelminths, acanthocephalans, and gordian worms.
Webster's New World
An insect larva, as a caterpillar, grub, or maggot.
Webster's New World
Any of several mollusks, as the shipworms.
Webster's New World
Any of various wormlike animals, as a rotifer or a blindworm.
Webster's New World
The spirally threaded shaft of a worm gear.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
wormed, worming, worms
To make (one's way) with the sinuous crawling motion of a worm.
American Heritage
To insinuate (oneself) into a situation, conversation, etc.
Webster's New World
To extract (information, secrets, etc.) by insinuation, cajolery, or subtle questioning.
Webster's New World
To elicit by artful or devious means. Usually used with out of .
Wormed a confession out of the suspect.
American Heritage
To move, proceed, etc. like a worm, in a winding, creeping, or devious manner.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
abbreviation
Write once, read many.
American Heritage
idiom
can of worms
  • a complex, usually unpleasant problem
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Worm

Noun

Singular:
worm
Plural:
Worms

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Origin of Worm

  • From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm "˜snake, worm', from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (compare Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Danish orm), from Proto-Indo-European *wrÌ¥mis (compare Latin vermis '"˜worm', Lithuanian var̃mas "˜insect, midge', Albanian rrime "˜rainworm', Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhomos, “woodworm")), possibly from *wer- "˜to turn'. First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English wurm variant of wyrm wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Worm Sentence Examples

  • The adult worm in the female sometimes reaches a length of 6 ft.

  • A bird came and brought a great big worm.

  • It then often retains its vitality for a long time, apparently crawling as if it were itself a worm, a phenomenon which is at least partially explained by the extraordinary development of nervous tissue, equally distributed all through the walls of the proboscis, and either united into numerous longitudinal nerve-stems (Drepanophorus, Amphiporus) or spread out into a uniform and comparatively thick layer (Cerebratulus, sp.).

  • The Egyptian cotton worm is Prodenia littoralis.

  • Meal Worm Farm - We sell mealworms starting at $ 8.00 per thousand.

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Words Starting With

WWOWOR

Words Ending With

MRMORM

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Words Starting With W and Ending With M

Starts With W & Ends With MStarts With WO & Ends With MStarts With W & Ends With RM

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With W4 Letter Words Ending With M