deworm
verb
deworm is a verb meaning “To cause (an animal) to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-W-O-R-M, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does deworm mean?
verb
- 1
To cause (an animal) to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs.
Hey, Ethel, you know it's your turn to deworm the cat?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce deworm?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-deworm.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of deworm
- deworms present, singular, he/she/it
- deworming participle, present
- dewormed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is deworm?
Deworm appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Deworm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to cause to excrete worms:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vermifuger, déparasiter |
| German | entwurmen |
| Portuguese | desparasitar |
| Spanish | desparasitar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does deworm come from?
From de- + worm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).