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build_up
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[ verb ] enlarge or increase
Examples "build up excitement" Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Captain_Chandler saw that it was building_up strength . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)These differences in_turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built_up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself , within a compact and uniform territorial area , but that Hoijer 's vocabulary is based_on Swadesh 's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined . (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)His rage had built_up as he made his way here from the second floor , helped by the quantity of champagne he had consumed . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)How in the world had he formerly found time to build_up a business , raise a family , be on half_a_dozen boards , work actively on committees and either go_out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief_case ? Related terms |
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[ verb ] grow or intensify
Examples "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)Although the tape was run for over 1 hr. , a steady state was not reached , and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built_up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate . |
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[ verb ] form or accumulate steadily
Examples "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly" "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" Used in print (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)An extended cold_spell caused ice to build_up on the aerator which was mounted on a floating platform and caused the entire platform to sink lower in the water . When the algae began to build_up again , the effluent BOD rose . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)The Gabriel pointed towards her destination and , under one gee acceleration , began to build_up towards her ultimate velocity , 99.1 percent of the speed_of_light . |
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[ verb ] (military) prepare oneself for a military confrontation
Examples "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East" "troops are building up on the Iraqui border" Used in print (Los Angeles Times...)President_Kennedy 's latest warning to the Communist world that the United_States will build_up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was somewhat surprisingly , reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron_Curtain . |
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[ verb ] change the use of and make available or usable
Synonyms Examples "develop land" "The country developed its natural resources" "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up" Related terms better settle redevelop train civilize develop develop exploitation development |
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