whipped up

The Greece fans had their sense of expectation whipped up by presentations before kick-off to the players who stunned the football world by winning Euro 2004 in Portugal.

“A lot of smoke was being whipped up, and it had this reddish hue to it. … Just for the sake of my lungs, I probably need to get out of here,” he recalled thinking.

The team whipped up a mix of egg whites and other liquids.

Instead of dust and debris swirling around the core of strong winds, it is water mist whipped up from the surface.

At one point there were fears of a line of fires stretching for kilometres heading for Athens, whipped up by fierce winds and high temperatures.