The meaning of Worms

verb

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

verb

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

verb

A helical device or component.

verb

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

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.

proper noun

An industrial town in western germany, on the river rhine north-west of mannheim; population 82,200 (est. 2006). it was the scene in 1521 of the condemnation of martin luther's teaching, at the diet of worms.

noun

A small animal with a long, narrow, soft body without legs or bones

Usage examples:

He wormed his way through the crowd as quickly as he could., fig. he was a distant relation who wor…

noun

A computer program that can send copies of itself to other computers and is designed to prevent the computers from working normally

Usage examples:

When users click an infected attachment, the worm opens a "back door" that hackers can use.