worry back
To slowly and carefully move something back, or to keep thinking about a worry and bringing it back to your mind.
Meanings
To carefully manoeuvre or nudge something back into its original position through patient, persistent effort.
"The surgeon slowly worried the bone fragment back into place."
To find one's mind involuntarily returning to an anxious thought.
"No matter how hard she tried to sleep, her mind kept worrying back to the test results."
A rare phrase with two possible uses. In the physical sense, it describes carefully manipulating something back into place (like a dog worrying a bone). In the psychological sense, it describes involuntarily returning to an anxious thought. Neither sense is common in modern usage. Learners are unlikely to encounter this phrase frequently.
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