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worked up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. aroused, emotional, excited, worked upadjective

    (of persons) excessively affected by emotion

    "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"

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  1. worked upadjective

    Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry.

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  1. worked up

    Worked up refers to a state of being extremely anxious, upset, or emotionally excited about something. This state often results from sudden anger, worry, or nervousness over issues causing emotional distress.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of worked up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of worked up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of worked up in a Sentence

  1. Elizabeth Warren:

    I know that sometimes, um, I get really worked up, and sometimes I get a little hot. I don't really mean to, what happens is when you do 100,000 selfies with people you hear enough stories about people who are really down to their last moments.

  2. Madeline Lewek-Franco:

    If I start getting worked up, I know I need to put Moose Lodge 2284 in God's hands and the hands of the people fighting Rocky Fire, and if my home goes, it's not the end of the world.

  3. Jeff Wasserstrom:

    As in recent years, even the most roundabout references to the event get censors worked up and maybe even lead to arrests, while images of a man standing before a line of tanks are shown and described in various newspapers outside the mainland, on the Chinese internet even the word' today' may be treated as subversive content.

  4. Raj Dasgupta:

    It's important not to get worked up about one bad night's sleep because anxiety itself makes it difficult to fall back asleep.

  5. Cynthia Ackrill:

    The mechanism of stress is that we get worked up over something so our sympathetic nervous system revs everything up. We need our heart pumping fast to keep our blood pressure up so that we've got good circulation and we can get away from the danger.


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