Crossword-Solution: WORM 4 letters, 220 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Worm	n.	A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
Worm	n.	Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
Worm	n.	Any helminth; an entozoon.
Worm	n.	Any annelid.
Worm	n.	An insect larva.
Worm	n.	Same as Vermes.
Worm	n.	An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
Worm	n.	A being debased and despised.
Worm	n.	Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
Worm	n.	The thread of a screw.
Worm	n.	A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
Worm	n.	A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
Worm	n.	The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
Worm	n.	A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
Worm	v. i.	To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
Worm	v. t.	To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
Worm	v. t.	To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
Worm	n.	To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
Worm	n.	To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
WORM	anagram	ROWM

We have 220 clues for the answer “WORM”

Clue	Answers
"Conqueror" in a Poe poem	1 answer
"Inhabitant" of some tequila bottles	1 answer
"Thou owest the ___ no silk": King Lear	1 answer
*Sci-fi shortcut	1 answer
Antivirus software target	1 answer
Anything spiral.	1 answer
Apple dweller?	1 answer
Apple intruder	1 answer
Apple spoiler	1 answer
Apt rhyme for squirm	1 answer
Bait bucket critter	1 answer
Bird's find	1 answer
Bird's prey	1 answer
Bit of bait from the backyard	1 answer
Book liver?	1 answer
Breakdancing move, with "the"	1 answer
Bug in mezcal	1 answer
CADEW	1 answer
Compost bin helper	1 answer
Compost-bin crawler	1 answer
Computer malady (and what can follow the starts of the four longest puzzle answers)	1 answer
Computer pest	1 answer
Computer virus's kin	1 answer
Creature floating in mescal	1 answer
Critter in a bottle of mezcal	1 answer
Garden squiggler often found in soil	1 answer
Dance move done in a prone position, with "the"	1 answer
Dennis Rodman nickname	1 answer
Dennis Rodman's nickname	1 answer
Destructive computer program	1 answer
Dirt denizen	1 answer
Draw (out) craftily	1 answer
Early bird victim	1 answer
Early bird's breakfast	1 answer
Early bird's catch	1 answer
Early bird's delight	1 answer
Early bird's prize	1 answer
Early bird's reward	1 answer
Early bird's target	1 answer
Early bird's treat	1 answer
Early bird's victim	1 answer
Early-bird special?	1 answer
Early-bird's victim	1 answer
Earth or book ending	1 answer
Fish dinner?	1 answer
Fish's last bite	1 answer
Fishhook squirmer	1 answer
Fishing Bait or compost creature	1 answer
Fishing bait, often	1 answer
Fishing bait, perhaps	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WORM (5)

Scepter and Power, thy giving, I assume, And gladlier shall resign, when in the end Thou shalt be All in All, and I in thee For ever, and in mee all whom thou lov’st: But whom thou hat’st, I hate, and can put on Thy terrors, as I put thy mildness on, Image of thee in all things; and shall soon, Armd with thy might, rid heav’n of these rebell’d, To thir prepar’d ill Mansion driven down To chains of Darkness, and th’ undying Worm, That from thy just obedience could revolt, Whom to obey is happiness entire.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

But the next day he prepared a worm to smite the gourd, and wither it; and I feel it is better to die than to live.” A silence followed.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Ornstein, in ACM June 89 Vol32 No6 and the appeal notice On November 2, 1988, Robert Morris, Jr., a graduate student in Computer Science at Cornell, wrote an experimental, self-replicating, self-propagating program called a worm and injected it into the Internet.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

The infamous {RTM} worm of late 1988, for example, used a back door in the {BSD} UNIX `sendmail(8)' utility.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

They would perform the markup on photocopies, return the books as soon as they were done with them, perform the keying, and return the material to AM on WORM disks.

LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with WORM (3)

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult... then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and s…

Peter David Tigerheart

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Winston S. Churchill Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne The Complete Essays

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 159 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).