Definitions for Worms

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Spelling: [wurmz; German vawrms]

IPA: /wɜrmz; German vɔrms/

Worms is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Worms (morsw).

Definitions for Worms

noun

1. a city in E Rhineland-Palatinate, in SW Germany.
2. Diet of, the council, or diet, held here (1521) at which Luther was condemned as a heretic.
3. Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
4. (loosely) any of numerous small creeping animals with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones, including individuals of widely differing kinds, as earthworms, tapeworms, insect larvae, and adult forms of some insects.
5. something resembling or suggesting a worm in appearance, movement, etc.
6. Informal. a groveling, abject, or contemptible person.
7. the spiral pipe in which the vapor is condensed in a still.
8. (not in technical use) screw thread (def 1).
9. screw conveyor.
10. Also called worm screw. a rotating cylinder or shaft, cut with one or more helical threads, that engages with and drives a worm wheel.
11. something that penetrates, injures, or consumes slowly or insidiously, like a gnawing worm.
12. worms, (used with a singular verb) Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. any disease or disorder arising from the presence of parasitic worms in the intestines or other tissues; helminthiasis.
13. (used with a plural verb) Metallurgy. irregularities visible on the surfaces of some metals subject to plastic deformation.
14. the lytta of a dog or other carnivorous animal.
15. computer code planted illegally in a software program so as to destroy data in any system that downloads the program, as by reformatting the hard disk.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move or advance in a devious or stealthy manner:
2. to get by persistent, insidious efforts (usually followed by out or from):
3. to insinuate (oneself or one's way) into another's favor, confidence, etc.:
4. to free from worms:
5. Nautical. to wind yarn or the like spirally round (a rope) so as to fill the spaces between the strands and render the surface smooth.

verb (used without object)

1. to move or act like a worm; creep, crawl, or advance slowly or stealthily.
2. to achieve something by insidious procedure (usually followed by into):
3. Metallurgy. craze (def 8a).

Origin of Worms

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English wyrm, dragon, serpent, worm; cognate with Dutch worm, German Wurm, Old Norse ormr; akin to Latin vermis

Examples for Worms

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors —to dislodge the Worms.

Ron Paul thinks getting rid of courts just because they issue unpopular rulings is "opening up a can of Worms."

"I'm going fishing," declared Bart, as he dug some Worms and put them in a can.

The NPS also believes in roads and tourist viewing; like most government institutions, it is a can of Worms.

These Worms crept into the nostrils of the cup-bearers so that they all fell asleep.

Robert went out into the garden, and dug some Worms for bait.

Worms and amphipods, along with other animals, use or bury the pellets, which Havens observed after preliminary experiments.

The kiwi is the latest of all the birds, but catches the most Worms.

Within the circle of their light the poison of serpents and Worms is powerless.

That has been found to prevent the biting of these Worms; and might be had in plenty on the spot.