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Build up

verb

Enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages.

Form or accumulate steadily. Synonyms: build, progress, work up. "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

Prepare oneself for a military confrontation. Synonyms: arm, fortify, gird. "Troops are building up on the Iraqi border" Antonym: disarm.

Bolster or strengthen. Synonyms: build, ramp up, work up. "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"

Change the use of and make available or usable. Synonym: develop. "The country developed its natural resources" , "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"

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"Build up" Quotes from Famous Books

... some dry sticks by the time the guide and Harriet returned. Janus got more, realizing the condition of his party, and wishing to build up a fire that would dry their wet clothing. The girls had no changes of clothing with them. They would be obliged to continue to wear their wet dresses ...

— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge

... "What! build up my lugg, Baby Charles? And yet, better deaf than hear ill tales of oneself. So let them build it up, hard and fast, without delay, the rather that my back is sair with sitting in it for a whole hour.—And ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

... whatsoever, by or from this undertaking." The proprietors of other colonies were looking to their own interests; the motto of the trustees of this was "Non sibi, sed aliis." The proprietors of other colonies were anxious to build up cities and erect states that should bear their names to a distant posterity; the trustees of this only busied themselves in erecting an asylum, whither they invited the indigent of their own and the exiled Protestants ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... and planks, to supplement those which lay just under the trees by the rattlesnake clearing, and now well seasoned and dry. Many of them had been carried here and there during the flood, but being ready cut down when the clearing was made, they were hunted up at the first thought of the return to build up our house, and dragged out of spots where they had been ...

— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn

... was—instead of coming to your senses then and stopping your deal with the other side—you took the opposite course. You would take the money, betray your benefactor and his friends, and leave the country! With that money as a foundation, you would build up a fortune. And that is what ...

— The Brand of Silence - A Detective Story • Harrington Strong

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