build

Speech parts

1. build - Noun

2. build - Verb

Meaning

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.

To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.

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.

To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

construct found build up form create increase shape frame establish progress raise strengthen erect soma make
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Antonyms

destroy decrease ruin weaken demolish palmyra
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Hypernyms

found make body better create ground

Hyponyms

corduroy person anatomy wattle frame raise

Phrases with the word

build bridges build air castles build castles in spain build a connection build a kinship build relationship

Derivatives

built building builded

Examples

It will not always be summer; build barns. Hesiod

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. Livy

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. Hindi Proverb

Some men will build a wine cellar when they have found just one grape. Lebanese Proverb

You can't build a barrel round a bung hole. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Buick buie Buikema build a basis build a basis for build a bedrock