worm
noun
any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
are worming
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present progressiveof worm.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The researchers will look at pathology slides of patients’ tumors to see if white blood cells are worming their way into the cancers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2018
Now the spaniels are worming through the thick sedges on either side of the brook which intersects the moor, and by their bustling anxiety it is easy to see that game is afoot.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
