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adrenalized

British  
/ əˈdriːnəlaɪzd /

adjective

  1. tense or highly charged

    adrenalized with excitement

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Then there was the tone and pacing of the movie — frantic, jagged, adrenalized.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

"I knew it had gone wrong a second or two before it did and I knew what was about to happen and I didn't have any kind of a adrenalized response," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2023

The kind of adrenalized, physics-defying mojo that turned Bay's past films like "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor" into zeitgeist-y hits don't always work these days.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2022

In reality, Snyder and his screenwriting partner Shay Hatten have created a piece that is fundamentally a temple to popcorn cinema — or an adrenalized, ballistic bacchanal.

From Salon • May 21, 2021

An adrenalized people one would, expect to be the first to take advantage of possibilities because of their energy capacity.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.