n.[C]

1. 蟲，蠕蟲；蛀蟲；寄生蟲
   All the apples had worms in them.

   這些蘋果裡都有蛀蟲。

2. 寄生蟲病，腸蟲病[P1]
   The boy had worms, but he is fine now.

   這男孩曾患寄生蟲病，但現在好了。

3. 卑鄙小人，鼠輩
4. 可憐蟲，小人物，懦夫
   You're no worm, you're a man; so get up, lad, and fight.

   你不是懦夫，你是一個男子漢；小伙子，爬起來，去搏鬥。

5. 逐漸侵蝕的事物；隱痛
   He felt a worm of unease.

   他感到一陣忐忑不安。

6. （螺釘等的）螺紋
7. 【電腦】蠶食病毒；破壞程式

vt.

1. 使蠕動
   He wormed his small body through the hedge.

   他蠕動他那瘦小的身體鑽過了樹籬。

2. 使緩慢前進；悄悄地行（走）[O]
   They wormed their way through the undergrowth.

   他們緩慢地穿過林下灌木叢。

3. 探得；千方百計獲取[O]
   She wormed the secret out of him.

   她從他那裡探得這一祕密。

4. 驅除……體內的寄生蟲
   The vet prescribed a medicine to worm my puppy.

   獸醫開了一種藥驅除我那小狗體內的寄生蟲。

vi.

1. 蠕動
2. 潛行；鑽入
   He managed to worm into an important position in the government.

   他設法鑽進政府竊據要職。

3. 擺脫困境
   Once again she wormed out of trouble.

   她又一次逐漸擺脫了困境。

n.

1. an earthworm or other creeping or burrowing invertebrate animal having a long, slender soft body and no limbs. [Annelida, Nematoda (roundworms), Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and other phyla.]
   ▸ (worms) intestinal or other internal parasites.
   ▸used in names of long, slender insect larvae and other creatures, e.g. army worm, slow-worm.
   ▸a maggot regarded as eating dead bodies buried in the ground.
2. informal a weak or despicable person.
3. the threaded cylinder in a worm gear.
4. the coiled pipe of a still in which the vapour is cooled and condensed.
5. Computing  a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect.

v.

1. move by crawling or wriggling.
2. (worm one's way into) insinuate one's way into.
3. (worm something out of) obtain information from by cunning persistence.
4. treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms.
5. Nautical,  archaic make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands.