"work up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: works up [present, singular, third-person], working up [participle, present], worked up [participle, past], worked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} work up (third-person singular simple present works up, present participle working up, simple past and past participle worked up)
  1. To raise; to excite; to stir up.
    Sense id: en-work_up-en-verb-uVToEru5
  2. To develop.
    Sense id: en-work_up-en-verb-HPcCtvV8
  3. (transitive, medicine) To give (a patient) a general medical examination to assess health and fitness. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-work_up-en-verb-UKWNKcBi Topics: medicine, sciences
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To use up (material, etc.). Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-work_up-en-verb-rZiro-gV
  5. (obsolete, nautical) To set at an irksome or needless task. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-work_up-en-verb-CR-JGJ4Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 17 17 10 46 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 15 8 14 23 40 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 8 11 18 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 16 14 14 46 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 7 10 14 60 Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
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