Clues for the word "WORRY"
We've had 33 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 66 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on January 04, 2024.
Definition of worry
- v. t. - To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To harass with labor; to fatigue.
- v. i. - 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.
- n. - A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.
Referring Clues
- Fret
- Dog or hound
- "What, me ___?"
- Cause of wrinkles
- Trouble
- "What, me ___?" (Mad magazine motto)
- Cause of fitful sleep
- It "often gives a small thing a big shadow": old proverb
- Stew
- Anxiety
- "Interest paid on trouble before it falls due," per W. R. Inge
- Be fretful
- Lose sleep over (with "about")
- "What, me ___?": Alfred E. Neuman line
- Concern
- See 7-Down
- End of Alfred E. Neuman's slogan
- Feel uneasy
- Be in a fretful mood
- Producer of wrinkles, it's said
- Distress
- Lose sleep over
- Lose sleep or fret
- It can make you look frowning or wry, somehow
- (Feel) anxiety
- Perturb
- 18 has a line each way
- Fret over
- Get into a stew
- "Don't ___, Be Happy"
- Cause of a furrowed brow
- "Hattie Harmony: ___ Detective" (kids' book by Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett)
- You might calmly tell someone not to do this
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - January 04, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 24, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 01, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 20, 2023
- New York Times - May 04, 2023
- USA Today - January 26, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 26, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 08, 2022
- USA Today - August 18, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - June 29, 2022
- Daily Quick - January 04, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - August 08, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 28, 2017
- Your Life Choices - June 08, 2017
- Daily Quick - May 20, 2017
- Family Time - February 27, 2017
- Universal - October 31, 2016
- Family Time - October 24, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - October 04, 2016
- Universal - September 26, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 23, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - June 06, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 14, 2016
- Guardian Quick - December 05, 2015
- New York Times - October 18, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 07, 2015
- Guardian Quick - May 09, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 01, 2015
- USA Today - December 25, 2014
- And in 36 more crossword puzzles...