triggered

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 4.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having a trigger that reacts to some specific condition.

   a motion-triggered alarm

2. adjective Angered; agitated.
3. verb simple past and past participle of trigger

Similar words

spark spark off trip touch off set off actuate activate initiation induction gun trigger

Often followed by

by the a off in when an and to

Word family

trigger triggering triggers