n.[C]

1. 虫，蠕虫；蛀虫；寄生虫
   All the apples had worms in them.

   这些苹果里都有蛀虫。

2. 寄生虫病，肠虫病[P1]
   The boy had worms, but he is fine now.

   这男孩曾患寄生虫病，但现在好了。

3. 卑鄙小人，鼠辈
4. 可怜虫，小人物，懦夫
   You're no worm, you're a man; so get up, lad, and fight.

   你不是懦夫，你是一个男子汉；小伙子，爬起来，去搏斗。

5. 逐渐侵蚀的事物；隐痛
   He felt a worm of unease.

   他感到一阵忐忑不安。

6. （螺钉等的）螺纹
7. 【电脑】蚕食病毒；破坏程序

vt.

1. 使蠕动
   He wormed his small body through the hedge.

   他蠕动他那瘦小的身体钻过了树篱。

2. 使缓慢前进；悄悄地行（走）[O]
   They wormed their way through the undergrowth.

   他们缓慢地穿过林下灌丛。

3. 探得；千方百计获取[O]
   She wormed the secret out of him.

   她从他那里探得这一秘密。

4. 驱除……体内的寄生虫
   The vet prescribed a medicine to worm my puppy.

   兽医开了一种药驱除我那小狗体内的寄生虫。

vi.

1. 蠕动
2. 潜行；钻入
   He managed to worm into an important position in the government.

   他设法钻进政府窃据要职。

3. 摆脱困境
   Once again she wormed out of trouble.

   她又一次逐渐摆脱了困境。

n.

1. an earthworm or other creeping or burrowing invertebrate animal having a long, slender soft body and no limbs. [Annelida, Nematoda (roundworms), Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and other phyla.]
   ▸ (worms) intestinal or other internal parasites.
   ▸used in names of long, slender insect larvae and other creatures, e.g. army worm, slow-worm.
   ▸a maggot regarded as eating dead bodies buried in the ground.
2. informal a weak or despicable person.
3. the threaded cylinder in a worm gear.
4. the coiled pipe of a still in which the vapour is cooled and condensed.
5. Computing  a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect.

v.

1. move by crawling or wriggling.
2. (worm one's way into) insinuate one's way into.
3. (worm something out of) obtain information from by cunning persistence.
4. treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms.
5. Nautical,  archaic make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands.