ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Upbuild

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Upbuild is a verb meaning (transitive) To build up (literally).

Meaning

(transitive) To build up (literally).

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To build up; to develop (figuratively).

Example Sentences

The cultured, on the other hand, are only upbuilt by forgetting about the petty, individual circumstances of life: […]
These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.
It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]
[…] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include build up, outbuild, build, put up, rebuild, make up.

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