Worry vs Ruffle - What's the difference?
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To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
To harass; to irritate or distress.
Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
(transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
To cause concern or anxiety.
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An instance or cause of such a feeling.
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Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.(w)
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Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .
To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
* I. Taylor
* Sir W. Hamilton
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
* Shakespeare
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
* Dryden
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
* Tennyson
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
* Chapman
In transitive terms the difference between worry and ruffle
is that worry is to cause concern or anxiety while ruffle is to disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.In intransitive terms the difference between worry and ruffle
is that worry is to be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety while ruffle is to be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.worry
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Verb
(en-verb)- Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.
- The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.
- Your tone of voice worries me.
- Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine.
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Synonyms
* (trouble mentally) fretNoun
(worries)Derived terms
* worried * worrisomeruffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- to put the mind in a ruffle
Synonyms
* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelowVerb
(ruffl)- Ruffle the end of the cuff.
- The wind ruffled the papers.
- Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
- the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- She smoothed the ruffled seas.
- But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
- The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .
- On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
- They would ruffle with jurors.
- gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
- [The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
- I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.