work up
Intermediate (B1) neutral
To slowly build up a feeling or to create something by working hard at it.
"We worked up quite an appetite hiking through the mountains all morning."
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UFC FIGHT PASS · 444:48
Make him work up.
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She's going to work up
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I can work up to it.
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CrashCourse · 5:23
and then increasingly work up to foreground elements.
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Doctor Mike · 95:37
like that, that we can actually work up