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WORKED UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
Example:
she was worked up about all the noise
Synonyms:
aroused; emotional; excited; worked up
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Context examples:
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
