preoccupation
She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.当儿子没有回家时，她几乎要急疯了。
I wanted to make amends for the worry I've caused you.让你那么担心真是不应该，我这里赔罪了。
Where on earth have you been? We've been frantic with worry.你到底去哪了？我们都担心死了。
Some people glide effortlessly through life with no real worries.有些人一生过得轻松自在，无忧无虑。
That's my kind of holiday - no phone, no TV and no worries.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Anxiety and worry - general words
agita
agitation
angst
anti-stress
apprehension
break out in a cold sweat
cold sweat
fluster
heebie-jeebies
jitters
nerve
nervousness
oppression
strain
tenseness
tension
tizzy
to someone's consternation
trepidation
willie

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Difficult things and people
 no worries
used to tell someone that a situation is acceptable, even if something has gone wrong: （用以告诉某人）不必担心，没关系
"Oh, I'm sorry I got your name wrong!" "No worries."“噢，对不起，我把你的名字弄错了。”“没关系。”

worry | American Dictionary

worry
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈwɜr·i, ˈwʌr·i/
to think about problems or unpleasant things that make you anxious, or to make someone feel anxious:
[ I ]If you get a monthly train ticket, you won’t have to worry about buying a ticket every day.
[ I ]My mother always worries about me when I don’t come home by midnight.
[ I ]"Will you be all right walking home?" "Don’t worry – I’ll be fine."
[ + that clause ]She worried that she might not be able to find another job.
[ T ]A lot of things worried him about his roommate.

worry

noun[ C/U ]us/ˈwɜr·i, ˈwʌr·i/
[ C ]Fortunately, right now we don’t have any worries about money.

Examples of worry

worry
I keep telling myself not to worry or to take any burden to them.
In designing tasks, researchers need to worry about establishing reliable and valid measures.
We use an equivalence on trees instead of worrying about representation.
Poverty is worrying about money all the time.
But as soon as you do this, you will start to worry about other meanings, even in single words.
They loudly poured out their worries, calling on their male relatives to discipline their sons.
They also worried that the addition of the working poor would expand by millions the numbers of those eligible for assistance.
Once we did not much worry about what the public brought with them to exhibits, but that is not the case anymore.
This would mean that we would not have to worry about the extremes of this distribution.
Nineteenth-century commentators worried that museum-goers would go too far toward one or the other of these extremes.
Several relatives were worried by their poor understanding of the complexities of the local authority's policies and practices in respect to self-funded admissions.
Lending to a wife probably did not happen very often because it was too risky for lenders worried about delays in repayment.
Instead, education is needed so that public fears track the real risks, and people worry about only what they ought to be worried about.
However, there are other worries in the same vicinity.
She was proud, astute, and worried about her husband's welfare.
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Collocations withworry

worry

These are words often used in combination with worry.

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big worry
That is the bigworry.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
cause worry
Pain in the neck or low back can influence functional capacity and causeworry, anxiety, and depression.
constant worry
The constantworry over worker quality and efficiency in the 1920s reflected this syndrome.
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