wrought-up

adjective

1. agitated or excited

Example Sentences

“Almost in a narcotic way. Not to be zoned out or in a trance exactly, but to be really wrought up in it. If you can do that, I think you’ve done something.”

From New York Times

“Unjust!—unjust!” said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.

From Literature

As a Washington Post reader named Walter A. Pinchback put it in a Letter to the Editor after Keys’s death: “At this moment, all Washington is wrought up about the crime situation here, and every good citizen is behind the movement to cleanse the city of the unlawful element, but it will be of no avail unless the people have faith and confidence in the enforcement officials.”

From Washington Post

“They was mighty wrought up about the South losin’ the War,” she would begin.

From Literature

“Please, hon, don’t let yourself get all wrought up.”

From Literature