Adrenaline
noun
A hormone released into the body in response to stress or excitement.
When she was chased by the dog, her body released adrenaline, making her heart beat faster.
Often appears as...
- adrenaline rush
- adrenaline surge
noun
Excitement, energy and strong feelings that make you physically alert.
That roller coaster ride gave me an adrenaline rush!
Often appears as...
- adrenaline junkie
- adrenaline rush
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noun
A hormone released into the body in response to stress or excitement.
When she was chased by the dog, her body released adrenaline, making her heart beat faster.
Often appears as...
- adrenaline rush
- adrenaline surge
noun
Excitement, energy and strong feelings that make you physically alert.
That roller coaster ride gave me an adrenaline rush!
Often appears as...
- adrenaline junkie
- adrenaline rush
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Adrenaline Effects
Adrenaline can cause physical symptoms like faster heartbeat, heavy breathing, or sweating.
Just before his speech, he felt an adrenaline surge that made his palms sweat.
Pro Tip 2/3Emergency Response
In medicine, 'adrenaline' is often associated with 'fight or flight,' the body's emergency reaction.
The paramedics used adrenaline to kick-start the patient's heart.
Pro Tip 3/3Adrenaline vs. Adventure
Use 'adrenaline' to describe reactions, not adventurous situations themselves.
Skydiving triggers an adrenaline boost, not 'skydiving is adrenaline.'
Pro Tip 1/3Adrenaline Effects
Adrenaline can cause physical symptoms like faster heartbeat, heavy breathing, or sweating.
Just before his speech, he felt an adrenaline surge that made his palms sweat.
Pro Tip 2/3Emergency Response
In medicine, 'adrenaline' is often associated with 'fight or flight,' the body's emergency reaction.
The paramedics used adrenaline to kick-start the patient's heart.
Pro Tip 3/3Adrenaline vs. Adventure
Use 'adrenaline' to describe reactions, not adventurous situations themselves.
Skydiving triggers an adrenaline boost, not 'skydiving is adrenaline.'
Pro Tip 1/3Adrenaline Effects
Adrenaline can cause physical symptoms like faster heartbeat, heavy breathing, or sweating.
Just before his speech, he felt an adrenaline surge that made his palms sweat.
Pro Tip 2/3Emergency Response
In medicine, 'adrenaline' is often associated with 'fight or flight,' the body's emergency reaction.
The paramedics used adrenaline to kick-start the patient's heart.
Pro Tip 3/3Adrenaline vs. Adventure
Use 'adrenaline' to describe reactions, not adventurous situations themselves.
Skydiving triggers an adrenaline boost, not 'skydiving is adrenaline.'
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How to make stress your...
It's a stress hormone. Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response. It's as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound. And when oxytocin is released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support.
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The hidden power of...
lots of smiling can actually make you healthier. Smiling can help reduce the level of stress-enhancing hormones like cortisol, adrenaline and dopamine, increase the level of mood-enhancing hormones like endorphins, and reduce overall blood pressure. And if that's not enough,
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How to stay calm when...
Now, I'm a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking. So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep,
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Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
they're dicing with death every night then these same adrenaline junkies will be getting their kicks backstage through similar means so let me tell you about this this photograph because this is Perla and this guy is Paula's best friend's boyfriend as I said people dice
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Want interstellar...
have to be audacious space exploration is supposed to be bold people don't want you taking timid steps they want us doing something bigger than we've done before we need to have that adrenaline rush as humans that's where we need to go if we think about this this is a
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Why you think you're...
Your adrenaline is elevated, and your actions are stemming from these deeply ingrained reflexes, reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy. So now, I'd like you to imagine playing a very different role,
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How rollercoasters...
Engineers have to account for the multiplied weight of every passenger when designing a coaster’s supports. Still, these rides aren’t for everyone. The floods of adrenaline, light-headedness, and motion sickness aren’t going anywhere soon.
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Exploring Pluto's...
And I think once you've had that taste, it's just you can't let it go. It's not quite adrenaline junkie stuff, but you want to do it again, and so it would be absolutely incredible to do it twice in a lifetime. What a privilege.
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How stress affects your...
and norepinephrine. As these hormones travel through your blood stream, they easily reach your blood vessels and heart. Adrenaline causes your heart to beat faster and raises your blood pressure, over time causing hypertension.
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
is you're getting an enormous amount of adrenaline pumped through your system. Young men will go to great lengths to have that experience. It's wired into us. It's hormonally supported.
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How to make stress your...
It's a stress hormone. Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response. It's as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound. And when oxytocin is released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support.
Video examples
The hidden power of...
lots of smiling can actually make you healthier. Smiling can help reduce the level of stress-enhancing hormones like cortisol, adrenaline and dopamine, increase the level of mood-enhancing hormones like endorphins, and reduce overall blood pressure. And if that's not enough,
Video examples
How to stay calm when...
Now, I'm a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking. So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep,
Video examples
Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
they're dicing with death every night then these same adrenaline junkies will be getting their kicks backstage through similar means so let me tell you about this this photograph because this is Perla and this guy is Paula's best friend's boyfriend as I said people dice
Video examples
Want interstellar...
have to be audacious space exploration is supposed to be bold people don't want you taking timid steps they want us doing something bigger than we've done before we need to have that adrenaline rush as humans that's where we need to go if we think about this this is a
Video examples
Why you think you're...
Your adrenaline is elevated, and your actions are stemming from these deeply ingrained reflexes, reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy. So now, I'd like you to imagine playing a very different role,
Video examples
How rollercoasters...
Engineers have to account for the multiplied weight of every passenger when designing a coaster’s supports. Still, these rides aren’t for everyone. The floods of adrenaline, light-headedness, and motion sickness aren’t going anywhere soon.
Video examples
Exploring Pluto's...
And I think once you've had that taste, it's just you can't let it go. It's not quite adrenaline junkie stuff, but you want to do it again, and so it would be absolutely incredible to do it twice in a lifetime. What a privilege.
Video examples
How stress affects your...
and norepinephrine. As these hormones travel through your blood stream, they easily reach your blood vessels and heart. Adrenaline causes your heart to beat faster and raises your blood pressure, over time causing hypertension.
Video examples
Sebastian Junger: Why...
is you're getting an enormous amount of adrenaline pumped through your system. Young men will go to great lengths to have that experience. It's wired into us. It's hormonally supported.
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Sonya Walger
English Actress
Lost' holds a very special place in people's hearts and I wouldn't presume to say that 'FlashForward' will replace 'Lost.' I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing 'Lost!' I think it will appeal to the very same audience.
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Shakira
Musician
People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.
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John Ortberg
American Clergyman
As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill
British Athlete
The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.
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Florence Welch
English Musician
I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin
American Actor
When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
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Simone Biles
American Athlete
The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
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Pedro Martinez
Dominican Athlete
Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
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Garrett McNamara
I'm not an adrenaline junkie; I won't jump out of aeroplanes and I'm afraid of horses. I just love surfing.
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Ricky Steamboat
American Writer
I like to listen to the crowd, I really do. The crowd helps give me that extra boost of adrenaline.
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Sonya Walger
English Actress
Lost' holds a very special place in people's hearts and I wouldn't presume to say that 'FlashForward' will replace 'Lost.' I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing 'Lost!' I think it will appeal to the very same audience.
Quote examples
Shakira
Musician
People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.
Quote examples
John Ortberg
American Clergyman
As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
Quote examples
Jessica Ennis-Hill
British Athlete
The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.
Quote examples
Florence Welch
English Musician
I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
Quote examples
Stone Cold Steve Austin
American Actor
When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Quote examples
Simone Biles
American Athlete
The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
Quote examples
Pedro Martinez
Dominican Athlete
Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
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Garrett McNamara
I'm not an adrenaline junkie; I won't jump out of aeroplanes and I'm afraid of horses. I just love surfing.
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Ricky Steamboat
American Writer
I like to listen to the crowd, I really do. The crowd helps give me that extra boost of adrenaline.
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