Work Up
How to Conjugate Work Up
- Infinitive: Work Up
- Present Tense: Work Up/ Works Up
- -ing Form: Working Up
- Past Tense: Worked Up
- Past Participle: Worked Up
Work Up is a non-separable phrasal verb and has 3 definitions.
Definitions of Work Up:
1. To gradually improve at or make progress in something.
Examples: I’m working up towards my masters.
Thelma worked her way up the corporate ladder.
2. To develop something.
Examples: What shall we work up this week?
Andre is working up a new software program for his company.
3. To become overly emotional.
Examples: Susie is always getting worked up over nothing.
Stop working yourself up! You need to relax and have a beer.
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