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Build   /bɪld/   Listen
Build

verb
(past & past part. built; pres. part. building; the regular past & past part. builded is antiquated)
1.
Make by combining materials and parts.  Synonyms: construct, make.  "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
2.
Form or accumulate steadily.  Synonyms: build up, progress, work up.  "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
3.
Build or establish something abstract.  Synonym: establish.
4.
Improve the cleansing action of.
5.
Order, supervise, or finance the construction of.
6.
Give form to, according to a plan.  "Build a million-dollar business"
7.
Be engaged in building.
8.
Found or ground.
9.
Bolster or strengthen.  Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up.  "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"
10.
Develop and grow.
noun
1.
Constitution of the human body.  Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique.
2.
Alternative names for the body of a human being.  Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma.  "He has a strong physique" , "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"



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"Build" Quotes from Famous Books



... You have seen my life. You know that I am pure. I have never committed adultery with any man. Now, therefore, I ask you to pity me. I will build you a lodge. Let my son survive. Bring him back to health, so that I may ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... feigning unconsciousness. And anyway they would soon find her and learn the truth. That would mean their quick recapture. Already he thought he heard a footstep descending from the bridge—approaching—With extraordinary strength for one of Francois' slender build, he swung the figure of the woman over the side, dropped her into the boat and followed himself. A breathless moment of suspense ensued; he listened. The approaching footsteps came on; then paused, and turned the other ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... up about our gardens. We are all very fond of flowers, I most of all. And at last Arthur said he thought that miniature mills were really rather humbugging things, and it would be much easier and more useful to build a cold frame to keep choice auriculas and ...
— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... turn away an unwelcome visitor, but we announce that we are not at home; or we slander him behind his back. When we love we pretend to be modest and indifferent, while, in an indirect way, we attempt to build walls around the person we love. There is nothing free in the expression of our emotions, for we are ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various
... lock canal divided the experts. The legislation by Congress was inadequate. In the spring of 1906 Roosevelt, with the approval of Taft, who had been recalled from the Philippines to be Secretary of War, determined to build a lock canal. The President tramped over the workings in November, 1906, and sent an illustrated message about them to Congress on his return. In 1907 Major George W. Goethals was detailed from the army ...
— The New Nation • Frederic L. Paxson


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