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worry someone sick en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (informal) To cause someone to worry to a great degree.
    • Frankly, it worries me sick to even think about it. 1990, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Sybil at Sixteen:
  2. (informal, reflexive) To worry to a great degree.
    • to worry oneself sick

Forms

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worried someone sick Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
worried someone sick Tense=Past lexicographic
worrying someone sick Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
worries someone sick Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

worried sick

Synonyms

tie oneself in knots

Translations (7)

cmn 操碎了心 (reflexive) · fr se faire un sang d'encre (reflexive) · fr se faire du mauvais sang (reflexive) · fr se ronger les sangs (reflexive) · fr se faire de la bile (reflexive) · fr se faire des cheveux blancs (reflexive) · fr se faire du mouron (reflexive)