Unek
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: Need some vocabulary help |
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Hello! I would very much appreciate it if some native speaker could explain to me what the verb "worry" means in the following passage (from Oliver Twist by *beep*)
A poor man has lost his wife, because they had nothing to eat...
"I tell you," said the man: clenching his hands, and stamping furiously on the floor, -- "I tell you I won't have her put into the ground. She couldn't rest there. The worms would worry her -- not eat her -- she is so worn away." The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body. |
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