What is another word for work up?
Synonyms for work up
work up
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Princeton's WordNet
build up, work up, build, progressverb
form or accumulate steadily
"Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
Synonyms:
work out, fortify, get up, progress, come on, construct, go on, arm, build, come along, develop, move on, shape up, build up, pass on, march on, get along, advance, establish, gird, ramp up, get on, makework up, get upverb
develop
"we worked up an as of an appetite"
Synonyms:
prink, drum, rise, prepare, stand up, build up, progress, mug up, fancy up, deck out, elevate, uprise, get up, trick up, rig out, tog up, grind away, lift, deck up, cram, arise, swot up, gussy up, bring up, organize, ramp up, swot, work out, tog out, raise, attire, organise, bone, turn out, fig out, dress up, trick out, devise, overdress, bone up, machinate, fig up, buildbuild up, work up, build, ramp upverb
bolster or strengthen
"We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
Synonyms:
progress, develop, construct, make, fortify, get up, build up, establish, build, ramp up, arm, work out, girdwork out, work upverb
come up with
"His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client"
Synonyms:
work out, get up, progress, solve, work, puzzle out, figure, ramp up, reckon, cipher, lick, cypher, build, elaborate, build up, compute, figure out, calculate, exercise
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#125 | work | |
#132 | make | |
#958 | figure | |
#1048 | build | |
#1482 | develop | |
#1728 | progress | |
#1837 | advance | |
#2042 | exercise | |
#2703 | rise | |
#3085 | establish | |
#3230 | arm | |
#3551 | raise | |
#3552 | prepare | |
#3852 | calculate | |
#4053 | bone | |
#4499 | lift | |
#4807 | drum | |
#4953 | solve | |
#7004 | construct | |
#7087 | arise | |
#7411 | organize | |
#9945 | compute | |
#12751 | lick | |
#13066 | elaborate | |
#16660 | organise | |
#20641 | attire | |
#22251 | devise | |
#23915 | cipher | |
#24187 | reckon | |
#27607 | cram | |
#29876 | elevate | |
#44923 | swot | |
#47021 | cypher | |
#57522 | fortify | |
#102581 | gird | |
#207890 | uprise |
How to use work up in a sentence?
I had a chest cold. It was actually in the middle of the summer, and when they looked at my pulminary function numbers, they were extremely low, and they suggested that I go to Mount Sinai and get a full work-up, where they gave me a whole battery of tests.
I’m doing my normal, you know, what I think is rockin’. Standing up there with my acoustic guitar in front of my stand and singing my songs, i had my band work up one of her songs, ‘Hella Good.’ And I thought ‘Man, that’d be so cool to have her come out and surprise.’ It’s the worst thing I could have done because all it did was make me look terrible.
Even though gardening may not appear strenuous, using the body in new ways can make you stiff if you don’t work up to the movement and prepare by limbering up a little.
There are two great workouts you can do. When you slide back and climb with some resistance you’re building your glute muscles, which just lifts your butt up a little bit. And then when you’re standing out of the saddle you’re really lifting the work up, so you’re lifting your toosh up and at the same time, engaging your abdominals.
We don’t want her to do anything strenuous until we get a cardiac work up on her, we’re scared. We’re scared it’s going to happen again. The chances are probably slim, but if it’s any chance we don’t want to take it.
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