All 5 Uses
anxiety
in
The Rocking-Horse Winner
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- Although they lived in style, they felt always an anxiety in the house.†
*anxiety = nervousness or worry
- Sometimes, for half an hour, she would feel a sudden anxiety about him that was almost anguish.†
- Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town, when one of her rushes of anxiety about her boy, her first-born, gripped her heart till she could hardly speak.†
- And then, because of the strange anxiety at her heart, she stole upstairs to her son's room.†
- Softly, frozen with anxiety and fear, she turned the door-handle.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(anxiety) nervousness or worry
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)