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Worry vs Werry - What's the difference?

worry | werry |

As a verb worry

is to seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.

As a noun worry

is a strong feeling of anxiety.

As an adverb werry is

very.

worry

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
    • Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.
  • To harass; to irritate or distress.
    • The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.
  • Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
    • Your tone of voice worries me.
  • To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
    • Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine.
  • (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
  • To cause concern or anxiety.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.}}

    Synonyms

    * (trouble mentally) fret

    Noun

    (worries)
  • A strong feeling of anxiety.
  • :
  • An instance or cause of such a feeling.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * worried * worrisome

    werry

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) very
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Frank J. Webb, title=The Garies and Their Friends, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Better let me make you up a little fire, the nights is werry cool," continued Ben. " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=John Bennett, title=Master Skylark, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="We must be off if we're to lie at Uxbridge overnight; for there hath been rain beyond, sir, and the roads be werry deep." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 30, 1890., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I spent a werry plessant arternoon there, and drove home in style on the Box Seat of a reel Company's Bus. The nex day I went to Higate Wood, another of the grate works of the good old Copperashun. }}

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