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worked up
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Princeton's WordNet
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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worked upadjective
Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry.
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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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of worked up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of worked up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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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.
I had something going with most of my female costars and worked up a routine so that I could see someone every night. one of my favorite approaches was to ask the young girls that requested to take a photo with me to email me a copy of the photo; that way I can give them my info very quickly in front of a crowd of fans and later work out a way to see them.
It’s turned into a bit of a tradition, and now everyone sends me scratch offs and chocolate for my birthday. i’ve seen a lot in my life, and I don’t get worked up easily. I think my son-in-law was more worked up than I was.
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.
It's important not to get worked up about one bad night's sleep because anxiety itself makes it difficult to fall back asleep.
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