Usage examples (35)

• I was so wrought-up, I felt a shiver, like a sailor when someone whistles at sea.
• All present noticed the wrought-up condition of the sub-lieutenant, and the latter soon exhibited evidence that he was breaking down.
• I don't get as wrought-up about minutiae, but I also probably miss some of the transient highs of people whose lifespan is limited to here and now.
• In these wrought-up times, it's a persona that has considerable appeal to the grass roots of the Democratic Party, if not, as yet, to the nation at large.