worried
/ˈwʌɹid/ adjective A2- Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy. · She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.
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For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own.
“I’ve a right to think,” said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.
She was worried about her valuable brooch.
I gave her every drop of ipecac in that bottle and when the last dose went down I said to myself--not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I didn’t want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my feelings--‘This is the last lingering hope and I fear, tis a vain one.’ But in about three minutes she coughed up the phlegm and began to get better right away.
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