Overview of verb work_up

The verb work up has 4 senses

• build up, work up, build, progress -- (form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border")


• work up, get up -- (develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite")


• build up, work up, build, ramp up -- (bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports")


• work out, work up -- (come up with; "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client")

Overview of adj worked_up

The adj worked up has 1 sense

• aroused, emotional, excited, worked up -- ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise")