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(verb) develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera" |
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Related Words: deepen, intensify |
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(verb) improve the cleansing action of; build detergents" |
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Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) found or ground; "build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation" |
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Related Words: base, establish, found, ground |
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(verb) build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation" |
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Synonyms: establish |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) be engaged in building; "These architects build in interesting and new styles" |
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Related Words: create |
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(verb) give form to, according to a plan; "build a modern nation"; "build a million-dollar business" |
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Related Words: develop |
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(verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of; "The government is building new schools in this state" |
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Related Words: manage, oversee, superintend, supervise |
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(verb) make by combining materials and parts: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" |
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Synonyms: construct, make |
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Related Words: cantilever, corduroy, create, customise, customize, erect, frame up, frames, groin, make, put up, raise, rear, rebuild, reconstruct, set up, wattle |
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(noun) constitution of the human body |
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Synonyms: body-build, physique |
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Related Words: bodily property, body type, dumpiness, lankiness, somatotype, squattiness |
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(verb) form steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly" |
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Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
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Related Words: develop |
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(verb) increase or strengthen gradually; "This investment is building interest"; "We worked up courage" |
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Synonyms: build up, work up |
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Related Words: increase |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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Related Words: adult body, body, female body, juvenile body, male body, organic structure, person, physical structure |
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