TO WORK UP

Definition: TO WORK UP

TO WORK UP

1. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage. The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. --Addison. (b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Non-Fiction Usage: TO WORK UP

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	China	At one camp in the western part of the country, inmates are forced to work up to 16 hours per day breaking rocks or making bricks, according to credible reports. (references)
Worker Rights	Djibouti	Some employers ask employees to work up to 12 hours per day and pay them an additional wage. (references)
	Mali	The Labor Code permits children between the ages of 12 and 14 to work up to 2 hours per day during school vacations with parental approval. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO WORK UP

Language		Translations for "TO WORK UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		kialakít (evolve, to configure, to form, to get into shape, to hew, to mould, to shape, to shape up), kiépít (build up, to build up, to establish), feltornássza magát, feljebb jut, felcsúszik. (various references)

Pig Latin		otay orkway upay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO WORK UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "k-o-o-p-r-t-u-w"
	-1 letter: outwork, topwork, workout.
	-2 letters: outrow, uproot, workup.
	-3 letters: kotow, troop.
	-4 letters: koto, poor, pork, port, pour, pout, prow, rook, root, roto, roup, rout, took, toro, tour, trop, trow, turk, work, wort.
	-5 letters: kop, kor, oot, opt, ort, our, out, pot, pow, pro, pur, put, rot, row, rut, too, top, tor, tow, tup, two, upo, wok.
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