"work up" meaning in English

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        "participle",
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      "form": "worked up",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "He worked up the public's passions to rage.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To raise; to excite; to stir up."
      ],
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        [
          "excite",
          "excite"
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        [
          "stir up",
          "stir up"
        ]
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        {
          "text": "I shall have worked up an appetite with all this heavy work.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 185:",
          "text": "\"See how it's working up; we shall have thunder and lightning.\"",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To develop."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "develop"
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            "Healthcare",
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            "Health",
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      "glosses": [
        "To give (a patient) a general medical examination to assess health and fitness."
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        "(transitive, medicine) To give (a patient) a general medical examination to assess health and fitness."
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      "glosses": [
        "To use up (material, etc.)."
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To use up (material, etc.)."
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        "To set at an irksome or needless task."
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        "(obsolete, nautical) To set at an irksome or needless task."
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          "text": "He worked up the public's passions to rage.",
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        },
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          "text": "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.",
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        "To develop."
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To use up (material, etc.)."
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        "(obsolete, nautical) To set at an irksome or needless task."
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