"worm" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /wɜːm/ [UK], /wɝm/ [US] Audio: en-us-worm.ogg [US] Forms: worm [singular], worms [plural]
enPR: wûrm [US] Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A tube-shaped animal with no legs that lives underground, under water, or inside another animal.
    Sense id: simple-worm-en-noun-KhKs-Qn6
  2. A snake or dragon.
    Sense id: simple-worm-en-noun-2-0tx-8- Categories (other): Old words
  3. A worm is a type of dangerous software that can go across networks of computers.
    Sense id: simple-worm-en-noun-zvaNE~4j

Verb

IPA: /wɜːm/ [UK], /wɝm/ [US] Audio: en-us-worm.ogg [US] Forms: worm [canonical], worms [third-person, singular], wormed [past], wormed [past, participle], worming [present, participle]
enPR: wûrm [US] Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. To move like a worm; to wriggle in order to move.
    Sense id: simple-worm-en-verb-WU-j2khU
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          "text": "He found a big worm to use for fishbait."
        },
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          "text": "Worms must be eating him by now."
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