Build Up

Definition: Build Up

Build Up

Verb

1. Enlarge or increase; "build up excitement".

2. Form steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly".

3. Grow or intensify; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border".

4. Prepare for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is arming Saudi Arabia".

5. Increase or strengthen gradually; "This investment is building interest"; "We worked up courage".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Industry

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Synonyms: Build Up

Composition

Compose, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of; (be a component).

Crosswords: Build Up

Build up your resolve, not your genitals (The Road to Wellville; writing credit: Alan Parker)

Oh Porterhouse, look at the wax build up on these shoes I want that wax stripped off there, then I want them creamed and buffed wih a fine chamois, and I want them now (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

He gets a kind of waxy build up in his ears (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)

Well, how about you build up a little more muscle tone by putting on your clothes (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

To build up when you are feeling small (Still On Your Side; performing artist: BBMak)

Build up your confidence (To Be With You; performing artist: Mr. Big)

Build, build up that power, hey (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel)

A time to build up, a time to break down ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)

It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. (references; author: unknown)

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Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Waiting for pressure to build up. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Whatever conclusions may be drawn from these facts - and facts they are - this is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Not to go any further back, the king, very wisely, desired to build up a navy

And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials

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Health

Without ADA, poisons build up and kill the lymphocytes. (references)

Those who survive malaria in childhood gradually build up some immunity. (references)

If cystine does not dissolve in the urine, it can build up to form kidney stones. (references)

Business

Therefore it has been difficult to build up a reserve fund for future technology upgrades and acquisitions. (references)

A large capacity build up is also planned in the aluminum sector, given the projected plans of companies like Hindustan Aluminium, Indian Aluminium, and Sterlite Industries. (references)

Therefore, it is important to build up personal relationships with the factory owners, especially with the small and medium sized factories where decisions can only be made by the owners. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

After independence, Slovenia was faced with having to build up most of its forces from scratch. (references)

Tanzania

TAZARA has announced plans to build up an additional line to link Tanzania with the Zambian port of Mpulungu on Lake Tanganyika. (references)

Brunei Darussalam

The government uses its earnings in part to build up its foreign reserves, which at one time reportedly reached more than $30 billion. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

With reduced availability of trade finance, exporters remain cautious about entering the Russian market, where they now face much stronger domestic competition from Russian companies that used the weak ruble to build up their market share. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "build up": agitation build up ♦ build up the defense. Additional references.

Albanian

shtim (accession, accretion, addition, augment, augmentation, enhancement, extension, gain, growth, inclusion, increase, increment, insertion, intensification, interest, multiplication, proliferation, rise), reklamoj (advertise, advertize, boost, glamorise, glamorize, glamourize, promote, publicize, push, sell), ngre (boost, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), mblidhem (assemble, bank, collect, contract, convene, cringe, crowd, crowd together, curl, draw, duck, forgather, huddle, mass, meet, mob, pile up, reunite, roll by, roll up, shrink), grumbullohem (aggregate, amalgamate, be amassed, be gathered, be mustered, crowd, crowd round, crowd together, mob, overcrowd, pile up, throng, unite), formoj gradualisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعزيز (reinforcement), ‏تعاظم (accession, accretion, boom, increase, intension, mount, swank, wax), ‏استفحال, ‏إنشاء (copy, foundation, foundress, origination, promotion, setting up), ‏إشتداد (intensification), ‏إشتد (grow, heighten, increase, intensify, strengthen), ‏أنشأ شخصية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

създавам (beget, create, devise, erect, establish, float, form, make, mother, originate, present, raise up, spawn, start, throw up, work), укрепвам (confirm, consolidate, embattle, invigorate), застроявам, зазиждам (brick, embed, fill in, fill out, imbed, wall up). (various references)

Chinese 

補養 (take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health), 白手起家 (build up from nothing, start from scratch). (various references)

Czech

zvýšit (accelerate, ameliorate, bring up, bump up, elevate, enhance, heighten, hot up, improve, intensify, put up, scale up, swell, turn up), zazdít (mure, seal off, wall up), zastavìt (develop), vzrùstat (be on the increase, built up, increase, quicken), vybudovat (build, found), prodlužovat se, posílit (augment, beef up, brace, buttress, corroborate, fortify, invigorate, recruit, reinforce, revitalize, strengthen), přípravy (arrangement), nashromáždit se, narùstat (accrue, accumulate, boil up, build), narùstání, koncentrace (concentration). (various references)

Danish

opbygning af dæk. (various references)

Dutch

opbouwen van een karkas. (various references)

French

battage, se développer, s'accumuler, renforcement, remontée de pression, intensification (buildup), faire de la publicité, consolidation, confection (building, building up), augmentation, accumulation (build-up, build-up effect). (various references)

German

aufbauen (assemble, base, be based, build, build on, construct, establish, fix up, get up, lay out, organize, promote, put together, put up, rebuild, set up, structure, to build (up), to build up, to synthesize). (various references)

Greek 

συγκέντρωση (centralization, concentration, focalization, gathering, turn out), χτίσιμο (stonework), αναπτύσσω (deploy, develop, evolve, explicate, expound, unfold, unroll, work up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליצור ת�"מית. (various references)

Hungarian

kiépít (to build up, to establish, to work up), helyrehoz (readjust, recondition, recover, redo, supply, to piece up, to put right, to recompense, to recondition, to rectify, to recuperate, to redeem, to remedy, to retrieve, to set right, to set up, to straighten up, to true, to true up), felépítés (build, buildup, build-up, conformation, erection, fabrication, set up, set-up, structure, synthesis, upbuilding), felépít (to build up, to put up, to rear, to set up, to throw up, upbuild). (various references)

Indonesian

membangunkan (arouse, constitute, shape), gejuju (pile up). (various references)

Italian

preparazione (preparation, preparedness, preparing), incrementare (increase, upgrade). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� り上�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate, to make up), 築き上�'る (to build up, to establish), 作り立てる (to adorn, to build up, to decorate, to dress up), 作り上�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate, to make up), 形� る (to build up, to form, to make, to mold, to shape), 形作る (to build up, to form, to make, to mold, to shape), 形づくる (to build up, to form, to make, to mold, to shape), 仮説�'立てる (to build up a hypothesis). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きずきあ�'る (to build up, to establish), つくりたてる (to adorn, to build up, to decorate, to dress up), つくりあ�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate, to make up), かたちづくる (to build up, to form, to make, to mold, to shape), かせつ�'たてる (to build up a hypothesis). (various references)

Pig Latin

uildbay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

recauchutagem, fortalecer (arm, beef up, brace, confirm, consolidate, fortify, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, shore up, stiffen, strengthen, toughen), estabelecer (base, constitute, determine, enplane, enter into, erect, establish, fix, fix up, found, implant, impose, institute, lay down, make, make out, make up, ordain, organize, prescribe, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stipulate), desenvolver (advance, cultivate, evolve, explicate, increase, put forth, spread, spread out), acumular (accumulate, amass, bank, coffer, collect, combine, congest, cumulate, fund, heap, jam, load, mass, mound, pack, pile up, stack, stash, stuff). (various references)

Romanian

construi (build, carry up, construct, design, engineer, erect, fabricate, form, found, frame, make, project, put up, raise, rear). (various references)

Russian 

строить (build, construct, line up, put up), собирать (amass, assemble, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, erect, gather, get together, levy, make up, pick, pick up, raise, scoop in, scoop up), наращивать (join), монтировать (assemble), застраивать (overbuild). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razviti (deploy, develop, evolve, mature, pioneer, uncase, unfurl), podizanje (heaving, heft, lifting, uplift, withdrawal), ojačati (become stronger, beef, fortify, grow strong, grow stronger, invigorate, strengthen), koncentrisati, izgradnja (building, construction, upbuilding), izgraditi (build, construct, develop, form, structure, upbuild). (various references)

Spanish

urbanizar (develop, urbanize), reunir (assemble, bring together, collect, combine, draw together, drum up, gather, gather together, get together, join, put together, reunite, round up, scrape together, scrape up, scratch together, scratch up, unite), recercimiento, enredo (do, embroilment, entanglement, hanky panky, involvement, jam, love affair, maze, mess, muddle, plot, Ravel, tangle), elaboración (elaboration, making), confección (confection, farad, make up, making, manifacture, manufacture, ready made, ready to wear, ready to wear clothes, ready-made suit), composición (compilation, composing, composite, composition, essay, make up, reconcilement, reconciliation, setting, setting up), aumento (accession, accretion, augmentation, expansion, extension, gain, growth, hike, improvement, increase, increment, magnification, putting on, raise, rise, upbeat, upturn). (various references)

Swedish

bygga upp, uppladdning, uppbyggnad (building up, construction, contexture, fabric), uppbyggd av (buildup), stegras (intensify). (various references)

Thai

เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมั่นคง, ออมเงินมากขึ้น, ถูกเติม�"้วยสิ่งปลูกสร้างหรืออาคาร, ปลูกสร้างให้ใหญ่ขึ้น. (various references)

Turkish

yığılma (collapse), toplanma (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, bee, collection, coming together, concentration, concourse, congregation, congress, convention, gathering, getting together, grouping, muster, rally, rallying, reunion, rush), reklâm (ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, ballyhoo, canvassing, commercial, plug, promo, promotion, promotional, publicity, spot), propaganda (agitprop, boost, canvassing, propaganda, publicity), kuvvetlendirmek (beef up, brace up, confirm, fortify, hop up, intensify, recruit, stiffen, strengthen, support), kurmak (activate, base, build, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, boom, cultivate, develop, enlarge, evolve, improve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up, work up), geliştirme (development, growth, improving, progress, refinement), göklere çıkarmak (beslaver, celebrate, cry up, emblazon, enthrone, exalt to the skies, flatter, glorify, magnify, pour it on, praise to the skies, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), artırma (augmentation, boost, economizing, enhancement, extension, increasing, overbidding, promotion), övmek (acclaim, accord praise, belaud, boost, celebrate, commend, compliment, crack up, cry up, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, flatter, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, pay tribute, praise, puff, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of, speak in praise of smb., talk up, vaunt). (various references)

Ukrainian

реклама (advertisement, advertising, blurb, circular, dodger, public relations, publicity), монтувати (arrange, assemble, fit up), захвалювання. (various references)

aggeres, aggeris, aggestum, coaedificamini, confirma, confirmabantur, confirmabit, confirmabunt, confirmamini, confirmanda, confirmandas, confirmandos, confirmans, confirmante, confirmantes, confirmare, confirmarentur, confirmaret, confirmasset, confirmasti, confirmat, confirmata, confirmate, confirmati, confirmato, confirmatos, confirmatum, confirmatur, confirmatus, confirmatusque, confirmaverunt, confirmavi, confirmavit, confirmavitque, confirmentur, confirmes, confirmet, confirmetis, confirmetur, extruamus, extructae, extructo, extructum, extrue, extruendam, extruendo, extruendos, extruentes, extrueret, extrueretque, extruet, extruetur, extruitur, extruxerant, extruxerat, extruxerunt, extruxi, extruxisti, extruxit, extruxitque. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: buildup, upbuild.

-2 letters: build.

-3 letters: blip, puli.

-4 letters: bid, bud, dib, dip, dub, dui, dup, lib, lid, lip, piu, pub, pud, pul, ulu.

-5 letters: bi, id, li, pi, up.

+1 letter: buildups, upbuilds.

+3 letters: upbuilding.

+4 letters: unpublished.

+5 letters: undisputable, unpublicized.