Overview of verb build-up

The verb build up has 5 senses

• build up -- (enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages; "build up your savings")


• build up, work up, build, progress -- (form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border")


• arm, build up, fortify, gird -- (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")


• build up, work up, build, ramp up -- (bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports")


• build up, develop -- (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")

Overview of adj built-up

The adj built-up has 1 sense

• built-up -- (peopled with settlers; "the built-up areas")