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View definitions for built-up

built-up

adjective as in backed

adjective as in reinforced

verb as in amplify, advertise

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Yes, the future lawmaker built up a full-service Santa business with a sleigh pulled by real reindeer.

Arturo in particular built up the organization and aligned it with the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels in the early 2000s.

“There was definitely some bias built up there that was based on my past success and previous exposure,” he says.

Abominable acts of violence have become common enough in Mexico that the public has built up a tolerance for such news.

He asserts that if the US had backed Syrian rebels militarily it would have built up a moderate counter-weight to ISIS.

I was an Innkeeper, who loved to carouse; J was a Joiner, and built up a house.

Civilisation is built up of the "heresies" of men who thought freely and spoke bravely.

The sides of the semi-eliptical vault had to be built up with brick-work, leaving only a narrow passage in the middle.

The day shall come, that thy walls may be built up: in that day shall the law be far removed.

In some places it would appear that they were built up wall-shape, liquid cement being poured into the interstices.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to built-up, such as: reinforced, stiffened, and strengthened.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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