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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
3. transitive 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.
4. intransitive verb. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
5. intransitive 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.
6. noun. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
7. noun. constitution of the human body

   Synonyms: habitus, physique

8. noun. alternative names for the body of a human being

   "Leonardo studied the human body"

   "he has a strong physique"

   Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, physique, shape, soma

9. verb. develop and grow

   "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

10. verb. form or accumulate steadily

    "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"

    "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

    Synonyms: progress

11. verb. bolster or strengthen

    "We worked up courage"

    "build up confidence"

12. verb. improve the cleansing action of

    "build detergents"

13. verb. found or ground

    "build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation"

14. verb. make by combining materials and parts

    "this little pig made his house out of straw"

    "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

    Synonyms: construct, make

15. verb. build or establish something abstract

    "build a reputation"

    Synonyms: establish

16. verb. be engaged in building

    "These architects build in interesting and new styles"

17. verb. give form to, according to a plan

    "build a modern nation"

    "build a million-dollar business"

18. verb. order, supervise, or finance the construction of

    "The government is building new schools in this state"

Synonyms

habitus, physique, anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, shape, soma, progress, construct, make, establish

Common word forms

builds, builded, builder, building, buildable

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