Definition of triggered in US English:
triggered
adjectiveˈtriɡərdˈtrɪɡərd
1(of a mechanism) activated by a trigger.
Example sentencesExamples
- If you hit the fire alarm, airtight doors descend, but only within five feet of the triggered alarm.
- An employee cannot ignore a triggered clinical alarm.
- The dancers respond to the triggered effects.
- When they arrived back at their home they discovered the source of the triggered alarm.
- It was too much of a coincidence for both an electronic disturbance and a triggered bomb to go off simultaneously.
- 1.1 (of a response) caused by particular action, process, or situation.
a triggered memory of his childhood
Example sentencesExamples
- Some are increasingly concerned that others on the committee are calculating that they will be able to reverse the triggered cuts.
- He will soon have to choose between a triggered public option and no bill.
- "Perhaps its a composition of their own" I replied, like a secret agent replying to a triggered codephrase.
- Suddenly his unruffled middle age is disrupted by a triggered memory of his childhood.
- See how feelings arise and how quickly we can associate them with any triggered emotions.