worm

worm is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
2. noun. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
3. noun. Any helminth; an entozoon.
4. noun. Any annelid.
5. noun. An insect larva.
6. noun. Same as Vermes.
7. noun. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
8. noun. A being debased and despised.
9. noun. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
10. noun. The thread of a screw.
11. noun. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
12. noun. A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
13. noun. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
14. noun. A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
15. intransitive verb. To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
16. transitive verb. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
17. transitive verb. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
18. noun. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
19. noun. To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
20. noun. 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
21. noun. screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
22. noun. a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network

    "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"

23. noun. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

    Synonyms: insect, louse

24. verb. to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

    "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"

    "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

    Synonyms: squirm, twist, wrestle, wriggle, writhe

Synonyms

insect, louse, squirm, twist, wrestle, wriggle, writhe

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in worm:

morw

Common word forms

worms, wormed, wormer, worming, wormless

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