Dictionary Entry
build
build is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4intransitive verb
To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
- 5intransitive verb
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.
- 6noun
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
- 7noun
constitution of the human body
- 8noun
alternative names for the body of a human being
"Leonardo studied the human body"
"he has a strong physique"
- 9verb
develop and grow
"Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"
- 10verb
form or accumulate steadily
"Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"
"Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
Synonyms
- 11verb
bolster or strengthen
"We worked up courage"
"build up confidence"
- 12verb
improve the cleansing action of
"build detergents"
- 13verb
found or ground
"build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation"
- 14verb
make by combining materials and parts
"this little pig made his house out of straw"
"Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
- 15verb
build or establish something abstract
"build a reputation"
Synonyms
- 16verb
be engaged in building
"These architects build in interesting and new styles"
- 17verb
give form to, according to a plan
"build a modern nation"
"build a million-dollar business"
- 18verb
order, supervise, or finance the construction of
"The government is building new schools in this state"
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