work up's Usage Examples:

In some instances, he asked to have a few discarded chairs available to destroy, in order to work up his rage before filming.

Media and the internet have made art so public that it leaves the work up for other interpretation and, in return, remixing.

I can still work up an envy for someone who has faith.

Carrier Air Wing Six on board USS Forrestal, completing an accelerated work up cycle and their third deployment.

Directing the Three StoogesBernds wanted to be a director, but could not work up the nerve to approach Columbia president Harry Cohn about the reassignment.

scored by horse and rider: "Cut out" is worth a total of 26 points; horse work up to a further 70 points; and 4 points for the course.

transfusions, massive transfusions, incompatibility work up, therapeutic plasmapheresis, cellular therapy, irradiated blood therapy, leukoreduced and washed.

the ACiD Acquisition by sending a compressed file of all the completed work up to that time.

The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.

technologies such as networking, failover is switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure.

He chooses this order so as to work up to a climax of error and absurdity in heathen worship.

This limitation makes the collection rather unrepresentative of The Who"s work up to 1968.

work up a wonderfully hazy guitar swirl, reminiscent of post-My Bloody Valentine noise-pop from the Britain of the early Nineties.

Synonyms:

procedure, investigation, aid, investigating, welfare work, lavation, activity, attention, busywork, housekeeping, operation, task, polishing, job, shining, heavy lifting, timework, care, tending, social service, mission, subbing, duty, make-work, loose end, wash, washing, spadework, substituting, action, nightwork, logging, unfinished business, service, undertaking, coursework, toil, missionary work, housewifery, labor, paperwork, project, housework, ironing, labour,

Antonyms:

inactivity, location, Heaven, divest, fire,