working up
Gradually getting to
Working up means gradually building or developing something.
You might work up an appetite through exercise, work up the courage to ask a question, or work up a sweat.
In professional contexts, working up often means preparing or elaborating: She's working up a proposal for the board.
Medical workers speak of working up a patient—running tests to reach a diagnosis.
- preparingMaking ready beforehand
- getting readyPreparation before an event
- developingBecoming more advanced
- formulatingCreating through systematic thought
- setting upPreparing or assembling beforehand
making · cultivating · fostering · warming up · building · progression · advancing · stirring up · agitating · ramping up · revving up · heightening · intensifying · arousing · provoking · firing up · energizing · psyching up
- incitementinciting, instigating, provoking, incitement, instigation
working upwinding down
Gradually decreasing toward conclusion
cooling down · tapering off · slowing down · scaling back · letting up
working upcalming down
Becoming less agitated
settling down · cooling off · settling · unwinding · decompressing
working upabandoning
Leaving permanently behind
dropping · scrapping · shelving · dismantling · tearing down
work, working, works, worked, worker, workers, workable, unworkable, workings