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Meanings of work up in English

Portuguese
desenvolver
Catalan
créixer
Spanish
fortificar

Form or accumulate steadily.

desenvolver
Portuguese
aumentar
Catalan
créixer
Spanish
aumentar

Develop.

aumentar
Catalan
proposar
Spanish
ofrecer

Come up with.

proposar
Usage of work up in English
1
It's difficult to work up the energy to be vindictive these days.
Dante's numbers
2
None of Graf's work up to that point had been party political.
The Guardian
3
Skipping is a cost-free way to work up a sweat at home.
The Irish Times
4
Doubtless she'd be able to work up a little more interest tomorrow.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
5
Nothing like sleeping fifteen hundred years to work up a real thirst.
A Hard Day’s Knight
6
And the sports programme will work up an appetite for it all.
The Irish Times
7
He could not work up much enthusiasm for Baerlon, either, not now.
To the blight: the eye of the world
8
Or just the appetizer, if you want to work up to that.
Second glance
9
Do you think there'd be any work up here for a contractor?
A Town like Alice
10
Jennifer, work up some momerath on what that will mean for us.
Anvil of stars
11
I believed it, too, but I couldn't work up the usual anger.
Honour's Knight
12
No; but I have a theory which I shall work up to-morrow.
The Yacht Club; or, The Young Boat-Builder
13
She could not realize that Nessus had to work up his courage.
Ringworld
14
Maybe with every little effort, we can work up to performing miracles.
Choke
15
Only a Philistine would have to work up a snigger at him.
The Irish Times
16
Instead, focus on what you can do, and work up from there.
Climbing Magazine
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Translations for work up
Work up through the time
Work up across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common