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[syn: built, reinforced]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Built (b[i^]lt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p.
Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to
build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b[=o]l farm, abode, Dan. bol
small farm, OSw. bol, b["o]le, house, dwelling, fr. root of
Icel. b[=u]a to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. [root]97.]
1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any
kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular
structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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Nor aught availed him now
To have built in heaven high towers. --Milton.
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2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or
produce by using appropriate means.
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Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.
--Shak.
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3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and
stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; --
frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
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I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace,
which is able to build you up. --Acts xx. 32.
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Syn: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Built \Built\ (b[i^]lt), n.
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.
[Obs.] --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Built \Built\, a.
Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in
composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as,
frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
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Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly
built. --Landor.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
built
adj 1: (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an
abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness; "the
built liquid detergents" [syn: built, reinforced]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "built":
Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, assembled, becoming, bonny,
braw, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, cast,
comely, constructed, crafted, created, curvaceous, curvesome,
curvilinear, curvy, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted,
fabricated, fair, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered,
goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grown, handcrafted, handmade,
harvested, homemade, homespun, likely, lovely to behold,
machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made,
manufactured, milled, mined, molded, personable, pleasing,
pneumatic, prefab, prefabricated, presentable, processed,
put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made,
ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, rounded, shaped, shapely,
sightly, slender, smelted, stacked, statuesque, well-built,
well-constructed, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed,
well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked