Word: Worm
How to pronounce: wɜːm
Noun
Definitions:
1. Any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.
Example sentences: "For many years only animals such as worms, leeches and midge larvae could survive."
2. A weak or despicable person (used as a general term of contempt)
3. A helical device or component.
4. A self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect.
Example sentences: "This would help identify and flush out infiltrating viruses, worms, trojans and other malicious softwares."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling.
Example sentences: "I wormed my way along the roadside ditch"
2. Insinuate one's way into.
Example sentences: "The educated dealers may later worm their way into stockbroking"
3. Treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms.
Example sentences: "I wormed her over a course of three weeks"
4. Make (a rope) smooth by winding small cordage between the strands.
Abbreviation
Definitions:
1. Write-once read-many, denoting a type of computer memory device.
Synonyms:
cankerworm
small worm
grub
maggot
caterpillar
bloodworm
earthworm
auger
screw
worm screws
helminth
guinea worm
insinuate
writhe
wriggle
infiltrate
crawl
creep
Derivations:
wormy
worming
wormed
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Worm in Other Languages...
Spanish: Gusano
German: Wurm
French: Ver
Italian: Worm
Turkish: Solucan
