any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs

a weak or despicable person (often used as a general term of abuse)

it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful

you ungrateful little worm!

a helical device or component

a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect

move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling

I wormed my way along the roadside ditch

insinuate one's way into

you wormed your way into their lives

treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms

I wormed her over a course of three weeks

make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands

an industrial town in western Germany, on the River Rhine north-west of Mannheim; population 82,200 (est. 2006). It was the scene in 1521 of the condemnation of Martin Luther's teaching, at the Diet of Worms