worming 的 3 个定义
- Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- any of numerous small creeping animals with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones, including individuals of widely differing kinds, as earthworms, tapeworms, insect larvae, and adult forms of some insects.
- something resembling or suggesting a worm in appearance, movement, etc.
- (13)
- to move or act like a worm; creep, crawl, or advance slowly or stealthily.
- to achieve something by insidious procedure: to worm into another's favor.
- Metallurgy. craze.
- to cause to move or advance in a devious or stealthy manner: The thief wormed his hand into my coat pocket.
- to get by persistent, insidious efforts: to worm a secret out of a person.
- to insinuate into another's favor, confidence, etc.: to worm his way into the king's favor.
- (5)
worming 近义词
等同于 creeping
等同于 sneak
等同于 squirm
等同于 wheedle
等同于 wiggle
等同于 wriggle
等同于 writhe
等同于 wangle
等同于 sweet-talk
等同于 coax
等同于 crawl
等同于 creep
等同于 edge
由worming构成的短语
- worm into
- worm out of
- worm turns, the
- can of worms
- early bird catches the worm
更多worming例句
- Trucking comes with its own bag of worms, but folks seem to believe that AV trucking has a clearer path to profitability.
- The challenge here related to the “odd worms out,” which sat out reproductive cycles.
- For each pair of worms, their number either stayed the same or increased by 50 percent over each 24-hour period.
- The first time I heard nematode worms can teach us something about human longevity, I balked at the idea.
- Surprisingly, many of these don’t ever occur in worms and other animals.
- And the other is what is called a horsehair worm that overtakes the bodies of insects.
- Who knew, by the way, that The Carter Center has wiped out guinea worm just about everywhere in Africa but South Sudan?
- So, Grey Worm arms the slaves of Meereen, who outnumber the citizens three-to-one.
- If you like mammal species from the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue")...
- It appeared The Worm had turned, even though his ignorance remained wrong side up.
- Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.
- It was no worm that Mrs. Robin had found, but Grandfather Mole's hairless tail sticking out of the ground.
- For Mrs. Robin had an end of a pinkish-white worm in her bill, on which she was tugging as hard as she could.
- When he was interviewed, fearsome in manner as he was, he sent the worm away packed with ideas and phrases.
- It also has an enemy, a small worm that forms in its body and gradually eats it up.