To be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.

plural of borrow pit

(construction, civil engineering) A pit dug to extract material (such as soil, gravel, or sand) for use at another location.

(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another on purpose instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.

The principle of incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden found in traditional East Asian garden design.

(Ireland, Scotland) The last three days of March, supposed in Scottish and Irish folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy.

(idiomatic) A period of time whose precise duration is not known but which can be expected to be quite limited, and at the end of which one's situation, benefits, or opportunities will be entirely terminated.

plural of semantic borrowing

the hypernym for loan meanings, also known as semantic loans, and loan formations.

plural of learned borrowing