upbuild
Verb
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Verb
upbuild (upbuilds, present participle upbuilding; past and past participle upbuilt)
- (transitive) To build up (literally).
- 1876, in the American Journal of Science, volume 111, page 299 :
- […] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […]
- 1976, William Morris Davis, The coral reef problem:
- These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.
- 1876, in the American Journal of Science, volume 111, page 299 :
- (transitive) To build up; to develop (figuratively).
- 1904, in The Outlook, volume 76, page 616 :
- Briefly, the Republic, as he sees it, was upbuilt by a cunningly manipulated political machine that reared a seemingly solid superstructure on the false foundation of the interests of a class rather than of the people.
- 1908, in the American poultry advocate, volume 17, page 363 :
- It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]
- 20002, in Kierkegaard's upbuilding discourses: philosophy, theology, literature (George Pattison), page 26 :
- The cultured, on the other hand, are only upbuilt by forgetting about the petty, individual circumstances of life: […]
- 1904, in The Outlook, volume 76, page 616 :
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