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say it: WUR-ee-ing
worrying is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of harassing someone". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of harassing someone
the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes
“vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw”
causing distress or worry or anxiety
“distressing (or disturbing) news”
“lived in heroic if something distressful isolation”
“a disturbing amount of crime”
“a revelation that was most perturbing”
“a new and troubling thought”
“in a particularly worrisome predicament”
“a worrying situation”
“a worrying time”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worrying come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.