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work up
work up
verb
Definition of WORK UP
to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort <spent years working up a period novel that was historically accurate in every detail>
Related Words churn out, crank out, turn out; cobble (together or up), throw up; compose, construct, craft, create, engineer, fabricate, fashion, form, frame, generate, manufacture, mint, model, shape, tailor; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), devise, hatch, invent, originate; accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry out, effect
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