Worrying

Definition

worry /'wʌri/ v ( pt, pp worried ) ၁။ ~ (about/over sb/ sth) စိတ္ပူသည္။ ပူပန္သည္။ ေသာကေရာက္သည္။ ‘Don't worry’, she said, putting an arm round his shoulder. ❍ Don't worry if you can't finish it. ❍ Your parents are worrying about you: please write to them. ❍ Stop worrying about the money — we'll manage somehow. ❍ He's always worrying over nothing at all. ၂။ ~ sb/ oneself (about sb/ sth) စိတ္ပူမိသည္။ What worries me is how I'm going to tell the children. ❍ Many people are worried by the possibility of a nuclear accident. ❍ She worried herself sick/ She was worried sick about her missing son. ❍ It worries me that they haven't answered my letters. ၃။ ~ sb (with sth) ေႏွာင့္ယွက္သည္။ Don't worry her now — she's busy. ❍ The noise doesn't seem to worry them. ❍ Don't worry him with a lot of silly questions. ၄။ (ေခြး) ကိုက္ဆြဲခါယမ္းသည္။ The farmer said my dog had been worrying his sheep. n ၁။ [U] ပူပန္ေသာက။ ဗ်ာပါဒ။ His parents were frantic with worry. ❍ Worry and illness had made him prematurely old. ၂။ [C] ပူစရာပင္စရာ။ အပူ။ He has a lot of financial worries at the moment. ❍ I don't want to listen to all his problems — I've got enough worries of my own. ၃။ [C usu sing ] (လုပ္ေပးရမည့္) တာဝန္။ You don't have to do anything about transport — that's my worry. ❏ not to worry [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိစၥမရိွပါဘူး။ အေရးမႀကီးဘူး။ We've missed the train, but not to worry — there's another one in ten minutes. ❏ worried adj ~ (about sb/ sth); ~ (that…) စိတ္ပူပန္ေသာ။ ေသာကေရာက္ေသာ။ be worried about one's weight/ job/ husband ❍ a worried look ❍ You look/ sound worried. ❍ I was worried that you wouldn't find me. ❍ Worried relatives waited at the airport. ❍ ‘Shall we meet on Thursday or Friday?’ ‘I'm not worried (ie I don't mind) — either day would be OK. ’ ❍ You had me worried for a minute — I thought you said 50 % not 15%. worriedly adv ❏ worrier n စိတ္ပူတတ္သူ။ ❏ worrying adj ၁။ ပူပန္စရာ။ စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ျဖစ္စရာ။ His attitude is extremely worrying. ၂။ အပူ မီးေတာက္ေနေသာ။ It was a very worrying time for them. worryingly adv : worryingly high levels of radiation.

Examples

1. Try not to worry so much.
2. [worry about] : People worry more about their health than they used to.
3. [worry that] : She worried that she might have taken on too much work.
4. [nothing to worry about] : If companies are following the rules
5. they’ve got nothing to worry about.
6. What worries me most is the possibility of complete failure.
7. [worry yourself about something] : Tell them not to worry themselves about the financial position.