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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. Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler:

    Those who want to get worked up about this should just go ahead and get worked up about it, They should take it up with the city of Nuremberg or with those who preserved it. It's an historical document.

  2. Michael Phelps:

    This time around, I just want to be able to help some of the younger guys, just being able to help them just kind of stay in their relaxed zone, not get worked up because it is the Olympics.

  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. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez:

    There were rednecks, ignorant people, who sometimes would cause problems. Mo never fought, but he used to get worked up and yell and stuff, afterwards he would calm down, and just say it doesn't matter.


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