worry

Stop worrying about your test; it’ll be fine.

That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.

The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.

Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.

So what if I wanted to touch my nose to the windshield? Who was it hurting? Why was it that he could repeatedly worry his change and bite his lower lip without the threat of punishment?

We read (Law's Memor. Pref. lix.) that "one John Brugh, a notorious warlock (wizard) in the parochin of Fossoquhy, by the space of thirty-six years, was worried at a stake and burned, 1643."