'work up' definitions:
Definition of 'work up'
(from WordNet)
verb
Form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" [syn: build up, work up, build, progress]
verb
Develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite" [syn: work up, get up]
verb
Bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports" [syn: build up, work up, build, ramp up]
verb
Come up with; "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client" [syn: work out, work up]
Synonyms of 'work up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- anatomic diagnosis,
- annoy,
- arouse,
- arrange,
- awake,
- awaken,
- beat,
- beat up,
- biological diagnosis,
- biopsy,
- blow the coals,
- blow up,
- breed,
- bristle,
- calculate,
- call forth,
- call up,
- cast,
- cause,
- chafe,
- churn,
- churn up,
- clinical diagnosis,
- concert,
- contrive,
- convulse,
- cut out,
- cytodiagnosis,
- design,
- devise,
- diagnosis,
- differential diagnosis,
- digital examination,
- disarrange,
- discompose,
- disquiet,
- disturb,
- electrocardiography,
- electroencephalography,
- electromyography,
- embitter,
- engender,
- enkindle,
- enrage,
- examination,
- exasperate,
- excite,
- fan,
- fan the fire,
- fan the flame,
- feed the fire,
- ferment,
- figure,
- fire,
- flame,
- flurry,
- foment,
- forecast,
- frame,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- get up,
- hatch,
- heat,
- heat up,
- huff,
- impassion,
- incense,
- incite,
- induce,
- inflame,
- infuriate,
- instigate,
- intend,
- irritate,
- key up,
- kindle,
- laboratory diagnosis,
- lather up,
- lay plans,
- light the fuse,
- light up,
- madden,
- make a projection,
- make arrangements,
- mammography,
- methodize,
- miff,
- move,
- muster up,
- nettle,
- occasion,
- oral examination,
- organize,
- overexcite,
- paddle,
- Pap test,
- peeve,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- physical diagnosis,
- physical examination,
- pique,
- plan,
- plan ahead,
- postmortem diagnosis,
- prearrange,
- produce,
- program,
- project,
- provoke,
- put up to,
- rally,
- rankle,
- rationalize,
- rile,
- ripple,
- roil,
- roughen,
- rouse,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- schedule,
- schematize,
- serodiagnosis,
- set astir,
- set fire to,
- set on,
- set on fire,
- set up,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shape,
- sic on,
- smear,
- steam up,
- stir,
- stir the blood,
- stir the embers,
- stir the feelings,
- stir up,
- study,
- summon up,
- swirl,
- systematize,
- test,
- tickle,
- trouble,
- turn on,
- upset,
- urinalysis,
- uroscopy,
- vex,
- wake,
- wake up,
- waken,
- warm,
- warm the blood,
- whet,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whisk,
- work into,
- work out
Words containing 'work up'
- To work at,
- To work in,
- To work into,
- To work off,
- To work out,
- To work up,
- Work,
- Worked,
- Workful,
- Working,
- at work,
- do work,
- in the works,
- out of work,
- work against,
- work at,
- work for,
- work in,
- work off,
- work on,
- work out,
- work over,
- work through,
- worked up,
- working out,
- workings,
- works,
- Bantam work,
- Basket work,
- Berlin work,
- Bolster work,
- Brick works,
- Church work,
- Coal works,
- Copper works,
- Crown work,
- Day's work,
- Drawn work,
- False works,
- Finished work,
- Gatch work,
- Gingerbread work,
- Glass works,
- Hand work,
- Iron works,
- Lip work,
- Loam work,
- Louver work,
- Machine work,
- Master work,
- Mosaic work,
- Muscular work,
- Neat work,
- Nulled work,
- Print works,
- Public works,
- Purfled work,
- Random work,
- Range work,
- Reticulated work,
- Rustic work,
- Sabrina work,
- Sorrento work,
- Stream works,
- Tabernacle work,
- Table work,
- To go to work,
- To set at work,
- To set on work,
- To set to work,
- To strike work,
- To work a passage,
- To work a traverse,
- To work the goaf,
- To work the gob,
- To work to windward,
- Topiary work,
- Unit of work,
- Upper works,
- Vermicular work,
- Vermiculated work,
- Virtual work,
- Working beam,
- Working class,
- Working day,
- Working drawing,
- Working house,
- Working model,
- Working pit,
- Working point,
- Works of supererogation,
- art work,
- body of work,
- cold work,
- complete works,
- detective work,
- dirty work,
- dramatic work,
- drove work,
- electrical work,
- field work,
- intelligence work,
- line of work,
- literary work,
- missionary work,
- piece of work,
- police work,
- put to work,
- reference work,
- scut work,
- sewage works,
- social work,
- tambour work,
- undercover work,
- welfare work,
- whole works,
- work animal,
- work bench,
- work camp,
- work day,
- work flow,
- work force,
- work in progress,
- work load,
- work of art,
- work papers,
- work party,
- work permit,
- work shift,
- work shoe,
- work song,
- work stoppage,
- work study,
- work surface,
- work table,
- work time,
- work to rule,
- work toward,
- work unit,
- work well,
- work wonders,
- work-in,
- working agreement,
- working capital,
- working dog,
- working girl,
- working group,
- working man,
- working memory,
- working papers,
- working party,
- working person,
- working principle,
- working rule,
- works council,
- works covenant of,
- works good,
- works program,
- Grotto-work,
- Repouss'e work,
- To work double tides,
- Tut-work,
- Wonder-working,
- Working-day,
- dye-works,
- hot-work,
- make-work,
- pis'e work,
- work-board,
- work-clothes,
- work-clothing,
- work-shirt,
- work-shy,
- working-class,
- hot-work steel,
- sheet-metal work,
- tool-and-die work,
- work-study program,
- propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar