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worm out
verb as in back out
verb as in chicken out
verb as in ferret out
verb as in repeal
Example Sentences
And pray resolve me, why must this false Title be set up as 'twere by the King's Consent, to worm out the only true one?
"No, I won't worm out and inquisit," she says—and we are bound to give her exact language.
A Downy Woodpecker had digged a worm out of a log by labour that most birds would have thought ill-paid by a dozen such worms.
I will be most happy to accept the invitation I've had fairly to worm out of you.
But those queens will make a little scared worm out of you and step on you.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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