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What does worked up mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic, informal) Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry.
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The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself.
Now the average man on the street is not going to get worked up over what happens to hedge funds.
In the late afternoon and early evening I worked up some more of the interior photographs.
Make no mistake, we'll get pretty worked up should another hack claim exclusivity for a story that we did first.
The very mention of non-availability of water as a discussion agenda got the women all worked up.
This could then be worked up into a yet larger, full-scale model in plaster.

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