same as build
to make someone bigger, healthier, and stronger, especially by making them eat more
to make someone think that something good is going to happen when in fact it is very unlikely
to talk about someone or something in a very positive way so that people are impressed with them
Don’t allow resentment to build up between you and your partner.
He used all of his considerable personal charm to get his foot in the door, build up trust.
I don’t want to build up her hopes if he’s not coming back.
I thought about the traffic build-up on the freeway, but I had a little time and I was reluctant to leave just yet.
Rosamund was beginning to build up her medical practice again.
Stevens played a key role in building up the company.
The results weren't as strong as normal fibreglass cloth lay-up, but it was quick, and, in sufficient depth of build-up, strong enough.
These exercises are good for building up leg strength.
They’ve built him up to be something that he isn’t.
When the computers build up a recognition system, well, the rest is easy.
When there's too rapid a build-up of nitrogen bubbles in the blood when you're making a very fast ascent.
You need lots of fresh fruit to help build you up.
You need more than veneer to build up a school the way he has.
builds up
building up
built up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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