What is another word for building up

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1. build up

   Synonyms:
   augment, beget, breed, cherish, colonize, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

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1. build upverb

   enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages

   «build up your savings»

   Synonyms:
   progress, develop, fortify, build, ramp up, arm, work up, gird

2. build up, work up, build, progressverb

   form or accumulate steadily

   «Resistance to the manager’s plan built up quickly»; «Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border»

   Synonyms:
   work out, fortify, get up, progress, come on, construct, go on, arm, build, come along, develop, move on, shape up, pass on, march on, get along, advance, establish, gird, ramp up, get on, make, work up

3. arm, build up, fortify, girdverb

   prepare oneself for a military confrontation

   «The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East»; «troops are building up on the Iraqi border»

   Synonyms:
   progress, lace, develop, fortify, encircle, girdle, fort, build, ramp up, beef up, spike, arm, work up, strengthen, gird

4. build up, work up, build, ramp upverb

   bolster or strengthen

   «We worked up courage»; «build up confidence»; «ramp up security in the airports»

   Synonyms:
   progress, develop, construct, make, fortify, get up, establish, build, ramp up, arm, work up, work out, gird

5. build up, developverb

   change the use of and make available or usable

   «develop land»; «The country developed its natural resources»; «The remote areas of the country were gradually built up»

   Synonyms:
   rise, fortify, grow, educate, produce, progress, modernize, spring up, modernise, explicate, make grow, arm, acquire, evolve, build, germinate, develop, break, train, uprise, get, originate, gird, ramp up, recrudesce, formulate, arise, work up, prepare

Matched Categories

1. • Develop
   • Improve
   • Increase

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1. Enid Bagnold:

   Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.

2. Bill Waldock:

   There was nothing wrong with the airplane… (but) if you didn’t really pay a lot of attention to it you could build up an immense sink rate.

3. Michael Oren:

   We’ll lose America, you have to work hard to lose America but that would do it, this is what we have to do in the interim: we have to build up a two-state situation … and we have to prove to the world that we are serious about any future negotiations for a final settlement with a Palestinian partner.

4. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich:

   The internal institutional failures involved must be addressed, and I look forward to contributing to all efforts to that end, so that, inspired by the Gospel, we can build up the unity of the Church, and together take up the work of healing our nation in this moment of crisis.

5. Stepan Poltorak:

   There is a threat still because the military groups of the (separatists)… and Russian troops continue to build up their forces, bringing additional equipment and ammunition and of course their plans are not peaceful, one should not be naive and think that Putin has given up his plans to seize Ukraine, to destabilize the situation in Ukraine. He’s just changing his tactics and strategies, but his goal remains the same: to seize Ukraine.

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