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WORMY
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Irregular inflected forms: wormier , wormiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Totally submissive
Synonyms:
cringing; groveling; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
Classified under:
Similar:
submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
Synonyms:
vermiculate; worm-eaten; wormy
Classified under:
Similar:
worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)
Derivation:
worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)
