The meaning of Wormed

verb

Move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling.

Usage examples:

I wormed my way along the roadside ditch

verb

Insinuate one's way into.

Usage examples:

You wormed your way into their lives

verb

Treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms.

Usage examples:

I wormed her over a course of three weeks

verb

Make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands.

Usage examples:

From each of the thinned strands take sufficient outside yarns to worm the rope and cut off the rest.

noun

Any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.

Usage examples:

For many years only animals such as worms, leeches and midge larvae could survive.

noun

A weak or despicable person (often used as a general term of abuse)

Usage examples:

It was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful

noun

A helical device or component.

Usage examples:

But if a worm gear is to transmit mechanical power, it should be a metal worm having a thread angle…

noun

A self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect.

Usage examples:

This would help identify and flush out infiltrating viruses, worms, trojans and other malicious sof…

abbreviation

Write-once read-many, denoting a type of memory device.

verb

Past simple and past participle of worm

Usage examples:

Because he was so small, he could worm (his way) through the crowd., she wormed herself under the f…