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1. Make by combining materials and parts
   - construct, make
    
2. Form or accumulate steadily
   "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
   - build up, work up, progress
    
3. Build or establish something abstract
   "build a reputation"
   - establish
    
4. Improve the cleansing action of
   "build detergents"
    
5. Order, supervise, or finance the construction of
   "The government is building new schools in this state"
    
6. Give form to, according to a plan
   "build a modern nation"; "build a million-dollar business"
    
7. Be engaged in building
   "These architects build in interesting and new styles"
    
8. Found or ground
   "build a defence on nothing but the accused person's reputation"
    
9. Bolster or strengthen
   "build up confidence"
   - build up, work up, ramp up
    
10. Develop and grow
    "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

1. Constitution of the human body
   - physique, body-build, habitus
    
2. Alternative names for the body of a human being
   - human body, physical body, material body, soma, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh

Sounds like: billed

Derived forms: building, builds, built

See also: builder, building

Type of: ameliorate, amend, base, better, bodily property, body, create, deepen, develop, establish, found, ground, improve, increase, intensify, make, manage, meliorate, organic structure, oversee, physical structure, superintend, supervise

Part of: homo, human, human being, individual, man, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Encyclopedia: Build