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Work up   /wərk əp/   Listen
Work up

verb
1.
Form or accumulate steadily.  Synonyms: build, build up, progress.  "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
2.
Develop.  Synonym: get up.
3.
Bolster or strengthen.  Synonyms: build, build up, ramp up.  "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"
4.
Come up with.  Synonym: work out.  "We worked up an ad for our client"






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"Work up" Quotes from Famous Books



... things mighty quick. It would be the joker in this game, all right! Well, why not make some? With what chemicals I've got left, couldn't I work up a half-pint? Bottled in glass flasks, I guess it would turn ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... the ingratitude a parent can work up! She ain't been there more'n a couple of months before she begins complainin' about bein' lonesome. She don't see much of the Tonawanda folks now, the housekeeper ain't very sociable, the smoke from the brick yards yellows her Monday wash, and the people she sees goin' by in the ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... basins, which become covered with temporary thin sheets of water or "playa lakes." Evaporation of these lakes leaves broad flats covered with the white salts. These may subsequently be covered with drifting sands and capillary action may cause the borates to work up through the sands, becoming mixed with them and efflorescing at the surface. One of the largest of the California deposits of this general class is that at Searles Lake, from which it has been proposed to recover borax along with the potash ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... the spring-tooth harrow or the disk harrow is best to use to work up the soil and no time should be lost in getting at this as soon as the land is dry enough in the spring. Sometimes the disk harrow can be used to work up the soil in the orchard in the spring without any plowing at all, especially on loose loams where there ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt

... be sure," cried Beatrice, brightening. "Teach, so I could. Well now, I'll go right on, harder than ever with my studies, and work up the French; I never can get German; I haven't the necessary twist to ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving


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