0 past simple and past participle of worm
1 to succeed in moving along in a difficult or crowded situation, by moving your body slowly and carefully:
2 to give an animal, especially a pet dog or cat, medicine to kill any worms that might be living inside it:
To use a veterinary term, they wormed us for inflation when in fact we were suffering from deflation.
This thing has wormed its way into our very instincts.
Thirdly, there should be some proof that a dog has been properly wormed.
I have no plans to require dogs kept in rural areas to be wormed.
Tapeworm segments were even found in the faeces of hounds wormed every two months.
He has a son who is blind in one eye as a result of contact with a dog which had not been wormed properly.
But, as we wormed our way through this covey, this conglomeration of buses, we found that every one of them was already under the ownership of the one authority.
He started up the field and by artful dodging wormed his way through the entire bunch.