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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
Examples of worked up in a Sentence
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.
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.
I get really stressed, I get really worked up and bottle it up, and right before the race, it just kind of comes out, and then... everything is a little bit more calm.
We have so many patients waiting, the other opportunity is we can do living donors. So we gladly accept altruistic living donors to where someone says I'd like to be worked up as a donor for someone I don't know and may never know, but I would be glad to donate.
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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