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worked-up

or worked up, wrought-up

[ wurkt-uhp ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

worked up

First recorded in 1900–05

But were Americans ever so worked up about the practice that they demanded it not be undertaken in their name?

[At a 2004 NAACP event], he got worked up listening to speech after speech talk about the heroes of Brown v. Board of Education.

For centuries, student artists copied plaster casts and worked up variations on images of the Holy Family.

Talking about the card at length, Suze Orman has gotten a bit worked up.

At some points Caddell got himself so worked up, he appeared to lose his train of thought midway through a sentence.

These ingredients must be well worked up in a mortar, until thoroughly incorporated.

Cement mortars should never be worked up after setting has taken place.

The dauphiness, worked up into a nervous state by the incidents of the day, seized the duchess' arm in her fright.

All went to the timber yard—every bit except some little pieces worked up in the Lady Chapel, and 'ere in this overmantel.

The district has been well worked up; and there are many of both sexes in it prepared to either pray or fight for St. Peter's.

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