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wrought-up

adjective

  1. agitated or excited
“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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Still, there is a certain monotony to the production: Shakespeare’s wondrous variety has been leeched from the text, leaving in its wake a single, sustained tone of wrought-up emotion.

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It was a trying scene coming just when the clergyman's wrought-up nerves were beginning to feel a reaction--the more trying as all looked to him to do anything that could be done.

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Will one of you gentlemen'—addressing the somewhat wrought-up group of lookers-on—'keep track of this with a bit of a pencil?'

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Frank 88 found some relief for his wrought-up feelings in informing the inventor of what had occurred.

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So dim did the voice sound to his wrought-up fancy that the question had to be repeated.

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