Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) build up, work up, build, progress (form or accumulate steadily) "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
S: (v) grow, develop, produce, get, acquire (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)) "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
S: (v) fledge, feather (grow feathers) "The young sparrows are fledging already"
S: (v) regrow (grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption) "parts of the trunk of this tree can regrow"; "some invertebrates can regrow limbs or their tail after they lost it due to an injury"
S: (v) spring (develop suddenly) "The tire sprang a leak"
S: (v) sprout, stock (put forth and grow sprouts or shoots) "the plant sprouted early this year"
S: (v) work out, work up (come up with) "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client"
Adjective
S: (adj) aroused, emotional, excited, worked up ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion) "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"