What is "worked up"

Usage examples of "worked up".

As his temper therefore was naturally sanguine, he indulged it on this occasion, and his imagination worked up a thousand conceits, to favour and support his expectations of meeting his dear Sophia in the evening.

But the torture is done and it's now for the fun and the paper that's white and the words that are right, for you've worked up a new s.

Presumably she's also a newly built vessel on her first commission, so we can hope that she's crewed largely by green personnel and hasn't been properly worked up as yet.

I worked up a case of the suspicions before I recalled why he wasn’.

Getting people worked up, winning a few seats in parliament, disturbing the country.

Admiral O'Quinn and his officers planned to stick their heads in the sand and discuss vintages until the Alliance commander worked up his squadron and brought it here to rain down destruction on the Cluster—.