Thesaurus results for WORMS

worms

verb

Definition of worms next

present tense third-person singular of worm

as in encroaches

to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits neighborhoods worming into lands reserved for wildlife

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as in infiltrates

to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way over a period of several years, the undercover agent was able to worm his way into the drug kingpin's confidence

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as in snakes

to move slowly with the body close to the ground the cat silently wormed along the ground as it snuck up on the bird

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Recent Examples of worms MomTok got Taylor on the plane and off to star in The Bachelorette, but not before Dakota worms his way in one last time. —

Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026 Guiteau eventually worms his way into an audience, ostensibly seeking an ambassadorship for his dubious contributions to the campaign but, in reality, requesting a path to greatness. —

Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025

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Paglen’s ideas, collected between two covers, carve a clean, linear path through our messy neural era, engaging in the kind of big-picture sense-making that books remain well suited to do, even as AI encroaches on this terrain.

— Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
Meta, Anthropic and Apple all now use TPUs, as Google increasingly encroaches on a market cornered by Nvidia's graphics processing units.

— Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026