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build up

English

  1. 🔊 enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
    “build up your savings”
  2. 🔊 change the use of and make available or usable
    “develop land”
  3. 🔊 form or accumulate steadily
    “Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly”
  4. 🔊 bolster or strengthen
    “We worked up courage”
  5. 🔊 prepare oneself for a military confrontation
    “The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East”

Similar words

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