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Build up

verb

Enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages.

Form or accumulate steadily. Synonyms: build, progress, work up. "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

Prepare oneself for a military confrontation. Synonyms: arm, fortify, gird. "Troops are building up on the Iraqi border"

Bolster or strengthen. Synonyms: build, ramp up, work up. "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"

Change the use of and make available or usable. Synonym: develop. "The country developed its natural resources" , "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"

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"Build up" Quotes from Famous Books

... on a trunk or stone, every turn of a woodland stream, every sun-ray which strikes him through the trees, every glimpse of the stars at night, has a meaning for him. He reads the forest like a book. No fear of his getting lost anyhow. Come, boys, I guess we'd better build up our fire, make things snug for ...

— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook

... Martin, in France. Its essential principle consists in ascertaining from the examination of many corpses the normal thickness of flesh that overlies a certain bone in a certain type of face. From these calculations the scientists by elaborate processes build up a face ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... mining towns, turned over the command to General Merritt, and hastened to the forts to organize a new force, leaving to his successor instructions to come in slowly, giving horses and men time to build up. Men began "building up" fast enough; we did nothing but eat, sleep, and hunt grass for our horses for whole weeks at a time; but our horses,—ah, that was different. There was no grain to be had for them. They had been starving for a month, for the Indians had burned the grass ...

— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

... reply, but sank deeper into his chair. The two sat long in silence. Sebastian looked at the fire and began to build up a picture of Madeline's face. The Hindu was apparently lost to the surrounding world, and yet he occasionally darted a glance of swift, animal-like ...

— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... be it! Perish Babel, arise Babylon! From ruins like these rise the fanes that shall last, And to build up the future heaven shatters the past." "Ay," he moodily murmur'd, "and who cares to scan The heart's perish'd world, if the world gains a man? From the past to the present, though late, I appeal; To the nun Seraphine, from the ...

— Lucile • Owen Meredith

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