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Build up   /bɪld əp/   Listen
Build up

verb
1.
Enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages.
2.
Form or accumulate steadily.  Synonyms: build, progress, work up.  "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
3.
Prepare oneself for a military confrontation.  Synonyms: arm, fortify, gird.  "Troops are building up on the Iraqi border"
4.
Bolster or strengthen.  Synonyms: build, ramp up, work up.  "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"
5.
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



... fixed in his mind, a scene once pictured in his imagination, and even before he had written a word the character lost the charm of its novelty, the scene the freshness of its original conception. Then, with infinite painstaking and with a patience little short of miraculous, he must slowly build up, brick by brick, the plan his brain had outlined in a single instant. It was all work—hard, disagreeable, laborious work; and no juggling with phrases, no false notions as to the "delight of creation," could make it appear otherwise. "And for ...
— Blix • Frank Norris

... burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Thus speaks the Lord, and thus speaking He gives the law, "Do unto others as thou desirest others to do unto thee." Now, in the name of Him who gave this law to humanity, to build up the eternal bliss and temporal happiness of mankind, in the name of that Eternal Legislator, I ask, is in that charity, in that fundamental law of Christianity, any limit of distinction drawn ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... I'm to have some more of our own boys, who are to be transferred from the French forces, and some from the Royal Flying Corps, so with that as a start I guess we can build up an air service that will make Fritz step lively. But we've got to go slow. One thing I'm sorry for is that we haven't, as yet, any American planes. We'll have to depend on the French and English for them, as we have to, at first, for ...
— Air Service Boys in the Big Battle • Charles Amory Beach

... with a sort of half vexed, half amused expression. "You cannot rise to a situation, Munro," said he. "I never met a fellow with such a stodgy imagination. I'd trust you to describe a thing when you have seen it, but never to build up an idea ...
— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro

... of God is denied, man falls into despair, and society into dissolution. What then is my inference? That atheism is false. Such a mode of arguing produces an outcry. "A matter of sentiment!" men exclaim. "You would build up a doctrine according to your own fancy! You do not discuss the question calmly, but appeal to interests and prejudices: you quit the domain of science, which takes cognizance only of facts and reasoning." ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville


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