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worm
- IPA[wəːm]
英式
- any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.；an earthworm.
- move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling；move (something) into a confined space by wriggling it
verb: worm, 3rd person present: worms, gerund or present participle: worming, past tense: wormed, past participle: wormed
noun: worm, plural noun: worms
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.
- ▪ an earthworm.
- ▪ intestinal or other internal parasites she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms
- ▪ used in names of long, slender insect larvae, especially those in fruit or wood, e.g. armyworm, woodworm.
- ▪ used in names of other animals that resemble worms in some way, e.g. slow-worm, shipworm.
- ▪ a maggot regarded as eating corpses buried in the ground food for worms
- ▪ archaic a dragon or other mythical snake-like reptile.
- 2. informal, derogatory a weak or despicable person (often used as a general term of abuse) it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful you ungrateful little worm!
- 3. a helical device or component.
- ▪ the threaded cylinder in a worm gear.
- ▪ the coiled pipe of a still in which the vapour is cooled and condensed.
- 4. a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect.
動詞
- 1. move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling I wormed my way along the roadside ditch
- ▪ move (something) into a confined space by wriggling it I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth
- 2. insinuate one's way into you wormed your way into their lives
- ▪ obtain information from (someone) by cunning persistence I did manage to worm a few details out of him
- 3. treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms I wormed her over a course of three weeks
- 4. archaic make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands.
