What are some alternative words for build up?
Synonyms for build up
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Princeton's WordNet
build up(verb)
enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
"build up your savings"
Synonyms:
progress, develop, fortify, build, ramp up, arm, work up, girdbuild up, work up, build, progress(verb)
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 uparm, build up, fortify, gird(verb)
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, girdbuild up, work up, build, ramp up(verb)
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, girdbuild up, develop(verb)
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
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#77 | get | |
#132 | make | |
#985 | increase | |
#1048 | build | |
#1482 | develop | |
#1549 | plant | |
#1618 | break | |
#1728 | progress | |
#1837 | advance | |
#2273 | produce | |
#2341 | fort | |
#2505 | train | |
#2703 | rise | |
#2923 | grow | |
#3085 | establish | |
#3230 | arm | |
#3552 | prepare | |
#4460 | foster | |
#6810 | acquire | |
#7004 | construct | |
#7087 | arise | |
#7484 | breed | |
#7682 | lace | |
#7738 | strengthen | |
#8623 | settle | |
#10285 | spike | |
#10451 | educate | |
#13885 | evolve | |
#18236 | formulate | |
#21569 | originate | |
#25495 | cherish | |
#26007 | augment | |
#28071 | propagate | |
#29724 | populate | |
#35630 | girdle | |
#41503 | replenish | |
#42883 | modernize | |
#57522 | fortify | |
#67452 | germinate | |
#72923 | modernise | |
#73995 | colonize | |
#87313 | encircle | |
#89838 | beget | |
#102581 | gird | |
#125863 | explicate | |
#207890 | uprise |
How to use build up in a sentence?
What we should be doing in the African-American community, and all communities, is build up respect for police officers.
That’s the one thing we’ve seen, we’ve seen that build-up.
The penance for a delay of the hike is a much steeper hike...That’s the balance the market’s been playing with, the longer the Fed stays on hold, the more risk there is that factors like inflation will build up.
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.
The enemy continues to build up forces in the main areas of the armed conflict.
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