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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:",
"text": "There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of worrying or harassing somebody."
],
"links": [
[
"act",
"act#Noun"
],
[
"worrying",
"worry#Verb"
],
[
"harass",
"harass"
],
[
"somebody",
"somebody"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɝijˌɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "worrying"
}
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