work up

See also: workup

English

Verb

work up (third-person singular simple present works up, present participle working up, simple past and past participle worked up)

To raise; to excite; to stir up.
He worked up the public's passions to rage.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
  In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.
To develop.
I shall have worked up an appetite with all this heavy work.

Translations

To raise; to excite; to stir up.

To develop — see develop

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