worry someone sick

verb — 2 senses

worry someone sick

verb
1

Informal To cause someone to worry to a great degree.

  • Frankly, it worries me sick to even think about it.1990, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Sybil at Sixteen:
2

Informal To worry to a great degree.

  • to worry oneself sick
Derived terms
worried sick

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