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worming

worming

4.1
Giving medicine to animals or people to remove small creatures living inside the body
  • noun
  • /ˈwɜrmɪŋ/
  • UK
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  • Before the summer, it is important to schedule worming treatments for your pets.

Examples

  • Deworming is in some sense a nutrition program because the worms are competing with the kid for the food.

  • That's a lot of worming tablets, Mr. Ellyn.

    Suffragette (2015)

  • Don't you have a goat that needs worming?

    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

  • Ol' Tom's about due for a worming.

    Cat People (1982)

  • Mickey boosted a vet's office and shot himself full of worming medicine.

    The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

  • Scheduled to get underway this fall, the Learning With Worming program will allow students to not only see waste reduction firsthand, but also teach them about business.

    Academic text (1998)

  • One of iMobot's modes of locomotion is an inch-worming crawl demonstrated in this photo sequence.

    Academic text (2011)

  • I've noticed the same thing in other stables where I've seen horse worming medicine stored in Mason jars and alcohol in blue milk of magnesia bottles.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The farmer ensured that all his livestock received proper worming to keep them healthy.

  • Regular worming can prevent serious health issues in both pets and farm animals.

Synonyms

deworming
vsworming
1 3.3

A program of giving medicine to remove worms from people or animals

is the single act of giving medicine to remove parasites

Surface Forms

worming singular
wormings plural

Morphology

worming = worm (transparent) = worm + ing

The noun denotes the act/state formed from the verb 'worm' with the productive gerundial suffix '-ing', so its meaning is directly derived from the base verb.

Etymology

The word worming comes from the animal worm and the ending -ing, and it originally meant 'the act of getting rid of worms'. Today it usually means giving medicine to people or animals to remove worms that live inside the body, so you can remember it as the treatment that makes tiny worms go away.