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build-up

Verbs

• (v) enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
  • build up your savings
• (v) form or accumulate steadily
  • Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly
  • Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
  work up, build, progress,
• (v) 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
  arm, gird, fortify,
• (v) bolster or strengthen
  • We worked up courage
  • build up confidence
  • ramp up security in the airports
  ramp up, work up, build,
• (v) 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
  develop,

Synonyms

work up build progress arm gird fortify ramp up develop

Antonyms

disarm demilitarise demilitarize

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