Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to build sb up
Participle: built sb up
Gerund: building sb up
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | build sb up |
| you | build sb up |
| he;she;it | builds sb up |
| we | build sb up |
| you | build sb up |
| they | build sb up |
Perfect
| I | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| he;she;it | has built sb up; builded sb up |
| we | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| they | have built sb up; builded sb up |
Past
| I | built sb up |
| you | built sb up |
| he;she;it | built sb up |
| we | built sb up |
| you | built sb up |
| they | built sb up |
Pluperfect
| I | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| he;she;it | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| we | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| they | had built sb up; builded sb up |
Future
| I | will build sb up |
| you | will build sb up |
| he;she;it | will build sb up |
| we | will build sb up |
| you | will build sb up |
| they | will build sb up |
Future Perfect
| I | will have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | will have built sb up; builded sb up |
| he;she;it | will have built sb up; builded sb up |
| we | will have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | will have built sb up; builded sb up |
| they | will have built sb up; builded sb up |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | build sb up |
| you | build sb up |
| he;she;it | build sb up |
| we | build sb up |
| you | build sb up |
| they | build sb up |
Perfect
| I | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| he;she;it | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| we | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | have built sb up; builded sb up |
| they | have built sb up; builded sb up |
Imperfect
| I | built sb up |
| you | built sb up |
| he;she;it | built sb up |
| we | built sb up |
| you | built sb up |
| they | built sb up |
Pluperfect
| I | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| he;she;it | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| we | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | had built sb up; builded sb up |
| they | had built sb up; builded sb up |
Conditional
Present
| I | would build sb up |
| you | would build sb up |
| he;she;it | would build sb up |
| we | would build sb up |
| you | would build sb up |
| they | would build sb up |
Perfect
| I | would have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | would have built sb up; builded sb up |
| he;she;it | would have built sb up; builded sb up |
| we | would have built sb up; builded sb up |
| you | would have built sb up; builded sb up |
| they | would have built sb up; builded sb up |
Imperative
| you | build sb up |
| we | Let's build sb up |
| you | build sb up |
Verbs conjugated like 'build'
bend,
build,
lend,
misspend,
overbuild,
overspend,
rebuild,
send,
shend,
spend,
berend,
besend,
bespend,
bodybuild,
databend,
foresend,
forespend,
forspend,
forthsend,
genderbend, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'build'
bail,
bald,
begild,
bid,
bield,
bile,
bilk,
bill,
bind,
bird,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- build
- make
- to put together
- assemble, compound, mix, put together, unite
- to construct
- artifice, betimber, build up, compile, construct, edify, erect, extruct, fabricate, fashion, form, make, manufacture, produce, put together, put up, rear, timber, upbuild
- particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
- knock up
- as in "We shall raise a building in his honor"
- raise
- make
- manufacture, fashion, assemble, construct, erect, fabricate
- increase
- mount, swell, wax, amplify, augment, grow
- found
- establish, institute, organize, formulate, constitute
Antonyms
- to construct
- demolish, destroy, knock down, ruin, take apart, tear down, wreck
- to take carefully apart
- disassemble
- to take apart carefully
- dismantle
- to destroy until there is nothing left
- raze
- to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate
- construct, create, make, produce, rebuild, recover, destroy
- make
- destroy, annihilate, demolish, dismantle
Additional Information
Cf. Old English weak verbs byldan (build), gyldan (gild), bendan (bend), rendan (rend), sendan (send), scendan (shend),
spendan (spend), wendan (wend).
Phrasal Verbs
~ something around something,
~ in something,
~ something in,
~ on something,
~ up (something),
~ (something) up,
~ up something,
~ something up,
~ up somebody,
~ somebody up,
~ up to something,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
3. Old English bytlan
4. Middle English bylden
5. English build
6. From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle. False cognate of German bilden. See: Old English '
byldan', German, old spelling '
bilden'.
Sample Sentences
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The town is built on the side of a hill, the highest point being commanded by a strong fortress, not yet quite finished. Several streets of good breadth and appearance extend from its summit to the water-side, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to impress all strangers very favourably. The private dwelling-houses are, for the most part, large and elegant; the shops extremely good; and the public buildings handsome. The State House is built upon the summit of a hill, which rises gradually at first, and afterwards by a steep ascent, almost from the water 's edge. In front is a green enclosure, called the Common. The site is beautiful: [...]
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[...] Like most other public institutions in America, of the same class, it stands a mile or two without the town, in a cheerful healthy spot; and is an airy, spacious, handsome edifice. It is built upon a height, commanding the harbour. When I paused for a moment at the door, and marked how fresh and free the whole scene was—what sparkling bubbles glanced upon the waves, and welled up every [...]
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[...] young creature with every human faculty, and hope, and power of goodness and affection, inclosed within her delicate frame, and but one outward sense—the sense of touch. There she was, before me; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light, or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an [...]
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[...] cell to eat it, where he is locked up, alone, for that purpose, one hour. The whole of this arrangement struck me as being admirable; and I hope that the next new prison we erect in England may be built on this plan.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] enormous packing-case without any direction upon it. In another there was a large hotel, whose walls and colonnades were so crisp, and thin, and slight, that it had exactly the appearance of being built with cards. I was careful not to draw my breath as we passed, and trembled when I saw a workman come out upon the roof, lest with one thoughtless stamp of his foot he should crush the structure [...]
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[...] some distance from the factories, and on the highest and pleasantest ground in the neighbourhood, stands their hospital, or boarding-house for the sick: it is the best house in those parts, and was built by an eminent merchant for his own residence. Like that institution at Boston, which I have before described, it is not parcelled out into wards, but is divided into convenient chambers, each of [...]
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[...] we alighted at Worcester, that their furrowed tracks were like ridges of granite. There was the usual aspect of newness on every object, of course. All the buildings looked as if they had been built and painted that morning, and could be taken down on Monday with very little trouble. In the keen evening air, every sharp outline looked a hundred times sharper than ever. The clean cardboard [...]
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‘I know it is. Why?’ ‘Some suicides happened here, when it was first built. I expect it come about from that. ’
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[...] English fair, roofed, put upon axle-trees and wheels, and curtained with painted canvas. They are covered with mud from the roof to the wheel-tire, and have never been cleaned since they were first built.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Built to be totally impregnable to vertical, lateral or hybrid attacks. Damn it. Can't get a connection, dude.
(Tron: Ares)