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worm

Definition

  • noun: a long, thin animal that has a soft body with no legs or bones and that often lives in the ground
  • noun: an annelid worm
  • verb: to move or proceed by twisting and turning
  • verb: to move or proceed sinuously or insidiously
  • usually used in plural
  • synonyms: entozoon, helminth, vermin

Examples

  • Some investors believe that 'the worm has turned', and that the economy is getting better.

  • She finally 'wormed' the truth 'out of' him. [=she finally got him to tell her the truth]

  • I didn't think that she would go on a date with that 'worm'. [='wretch']

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) And its going thru' time, seems to be also the only real purpose of each of the cell in our bodies. To achieve that aim, the mass of the cell that make up earth worm and human beings has only solutions. Be a mortal... ...or to reproduce. If its habitat is not sufficiently favorable or nurturing, (..)
    2014 Lucy