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) build up, work up, build, ramp up (bolster or strengthen) "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
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"