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Worm

wəːm

Worm definitions

noun

Inflections:

worm worms

any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs
- an earthworm
- intestinal or other internal parasites
  
  "she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms"
- used in names of long, slender insect larvae, especially those in fruit or wood, e.g. armyworm, woodworm
- used in names of other animals that resemble worms in some way, e.g. slow-worm, shipworm
- a maggot regarded as eating corpses buried in the ground
  
  "food for worms"
- a dragon or other mythical snake-like reptile
a weak or despicable person (often used as a general term of abuse)

"it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful"
a helical device or component
- the threaded cylinder in a worm gear
- the coiled pipe of a still in which the vapour is cooled and condensed
a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect

verb

Inflections:

worm wormed worming worms

move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling

"I wormed my way along the roadside ditch"
- move (something) into a confined space by wriggling it
  
  "I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth"
insinuate one's way into

"you wormed your way into their lives"
- obtain information from (someone) by cunning persistence
  
  "I did manage to worm a few details out of him"
treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms

"I wormed her over a course of three weeks"
make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands