"worry someone sick" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-worry someone sick.wav Forms: worries someone sick [present, singular, third-person], worrying someone sick [participle, present], worried someone sick [participle, past], worried someone sick [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} worry someone sick (third-person singular simple present worries someone sick, present participle worrying someone sick, simple past and past participle worried someone sick)
  1. (informal) To cause someone to worry to a great degree. Tags: informal Translations (reflexive): 操碎了心 (cāo suìle xīn) (Chinese Mandarin), se faire de la bile (French), se faire du mauvais sang (French), se faire un sang d’encre (French), se ronger les sangs (French), se faire du mouron (French), se faire des cheveux blancs (French)
    Sense id: en-worry_someone_sick-en-verb-Df9C0Wc7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of 'reflexive': 74 26
  2. (informal, reflexive) To worry to a great degree. Tags: informal, reflexive Synonyms: tie oneself in knots
    Sense id: en-worry_someone_sick-en-verb-f7Vezebu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: worried sick (english: originally a passive past participle, now used adjectivally) Related terms: sick with worry 
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        "(informal) To cause someone to worry to a great degree."
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