Meaning

Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other..

Definitions by Sense

1. Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.
2. Having increased in size, quantity, or intensity over time; accumulated.
3. Constructed or enhanced.
4. (of an area of land) Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.
5. (British) (of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.
6. (Europe) (of an area of land) Having specific traffic signaling and therefore usually subject to a maximum 50 km/h speed limit.

Example Sentences

Built-up weights in the wheels balance the revolving and 50 per cent of the reciprocating weight.

Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood.

The picture below dates to about 1860 and shows the Point not too many years after the construction of the Long Dock, seen here as a strip of built-up roadway just wide enough for two horsedrawn wagons to pass each other.

Forget any idyllic Garden of Eden of running when we ran barefootand naked before Adam plucked a shoe with a built-up heel from the tree of running.

Gunther's car was a '38 Oldsmobile with a built-up seat and special elongated pedals put on by Arnie the garageman for a reasonable price.

The stained-glass windows were cleaned; years of built-up soil removed from the murals; the wooden pews sanded and refinished, the kneeling benches covered with soft new carpeting.

His analytical method gradually strips away built-up defensive layers of the personality until we are able to see our true selves.

This slowed entry into the bowel reduces built-up gas and runny poos which leads to a happier, more contented baby.

Word Forms

• more built-up
• most built-up
• built up
• builtup

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When Should You Use Built-up?

Use built-up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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