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    Worm
    /wərm/

    noun

    • 1. any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.
    • 2. a weak or despicable person (used as a general term of contempt): informal, derogatory "it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful"

    verb

    • 1. move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling: "I wormed my way along the roadside ditch"
    • 2. insinuate one's way into: "the educated dealers may later worm their way into stockbroking"
  2. to gradually get into a situation by making people like you and trust you, especially by deceiving them: He wormed his way into the family. (Definition of worm from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of worm. in Chinese (Traditional) 蠕蟲, (某些昆蟲的)幼蟲, 寄生蟲… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 蠕虫, (某些昆虫的)幼虫, 寄生虫…

  3. Any of various invertebrate animals having a soft, long body that is round or flattened and usually lacks limbs. The term worm is used variously to refer to the segmented worms (or annelids, such as the earthworm), roundworms (or nematodes), flatworms (or platyhelminths), and various other groups.

  4. A computer worm is a subset of the Trojan horse malware that can propagate or self-replicate from one computer to another without human activation after breaching a system. Typically, a worm spreads across a network through your Internet or LAN (Local Area Network) connection.

  5. Jun 1, 2022 · Worms : Worms are similar to a virus but it does not modify the program. It replicates itself more and more to cause slow down the computer system. Worms can be controlled by remote. The main objective of worms is to eat the system resources.

  6. worm definition: a small creature with a long, thin, soft body and no legs. Learn more.

  7. Oct 4, 2023 · A worm is a type of malicious software (malware) that replicates while moving across computers, leaving copies of itself in the memory of each computer in its path. Advertisements. Techopedia Explains Worm.

  8. worm. verb. /wɜːm/ /wɜːrm/ Verb Forms. Phrasal Verbs. worm your way + adv./prep. to use a twisting and turning movement, especially to move through a narrow or crowded place. She wormed her way through the crowd to the reception desk. Questions about grammar and vocabulary?

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