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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
                    Synonyms
                    Examples for "work out"
                    Examples for "work out"
                    1
                    He said he needed to work out an inheritance problem with her.
                    Mission road
                    2
                    More images are currently being planned to help work out what happened.
                    The Guardian
                    3
                    The regulation, for example, about not taking work out of the office...'
                    The Human Factor
                    4
                    I'm trying to work out the right balance of history and travel.
                    Reuters
                    5
                    We need to take time to work out the consequences and act.
                    Reuters
                    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