build

build has 18 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. i.. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
• v. i.. 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.
• n.. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
• n.. constitution of the human body
• n.. alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
• v.. develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"
• v.. form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
• v.. bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
• v.. improve the cleansing action of; "build detergents"