Dictionary

beworry en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /bɪˈwʌɹi/

Etymology

From be- + worry.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To worry about.
2. (transitive) To fill with worry; cause to be worried; beset with cares; trouble; vex; harass.
   • Here the much beworried mamma will get a short respite from the ever-recurring bothers of household cares; [...] 1887, James Henry Collens, Guide to Trinidad:
   • Is there a death ? — it is no easy matter for an editor to select from the bundle of elegies he receives. Is there a shipwreck or any great national event ? — and the poor beworried nine are called upon to inspire a thousand pens, [...] 1845, Chambers's Journal:
   • "Franklin's grotesque mortal envelope had disappeared from the poop to seek its needful repose, if only the beworried soul would let it rest awhile. Mr. Powell, half sorry for the thick little man, wondered whether it would let him. 1921, Chance
   • [...] and yet it is intended to establish a Convention, an extra-constitutional machine, to set all the machinery of a general election in motion again for the purpose of altering this much-beworried Constitution, [...] 1920, Parliamentary debates:

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Deriveds

beworried