| Definition of 'build up' |
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1. (verb) build up
enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
"build up your savings"
2. (verb) 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"
3. (verb) 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"
4. (verb) build up, work up, build, ramp up
bolster or strengthen
"We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
5. (verb) 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"
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1. build up
to gradually increase
cholesterol that builds up in the arteries
2. build up
to create over a long period
to build up a successful business
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Sense: to increase (the size or extent of)
The traffic begins to build up around five o'clock.
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 Afrikaans: opbou, ophoop |
 Arabic: يَزْدادُ |
 Bulgarian: увеличавам |
 Brazilian: aumentar |
 Czech: vzrůstat |
 German: sich verstärken |
 Danish: hobe (sig op) |
 Greek: αυξάνω, κλιμακώνομαι |
 Spanish: aumentar |
 Estonian: tihenema, kogunema |
 Farsi: گسترش دادن |
 Finnish: kasvattaa |
 French: (s')accroître |
 Hebrew: הִתְגַבּרוּת |
 Hindi: विभिन्न भागों द्वारा निर् |
 Croatian: povećati se |
 Hungarian: növekszik |
 Indonesian: meningkat |
 Italian: aumentare |
 Japanese: 増加する |
 Korean: 증가하다 |
 Lithuanian: didėti, augti |
 Latvian: palielināt; palielināties |
 Malay: meningkat |
 Dutch: (doen) toenemen |
 Norwegian: bygge/samle/hope seg opp |
 Polish: wzmagać się |
 Persian: گسترش دادن |
 Pashto: پراخول |
 Portuguese: aumentar |
 Romanian: a creşte |
 Russian: нарастать |
 Slovak: vzrastať |
 Slovenian: naraščati |
 Serbian: povećavati se |
 Swedish: öka, hopa sig, stegras |
 Thai: เพิ่ม (ขนาด) ขึ้น |
 Turkish: artmak, birikmek |
 Taiwanese: 增多 |
 Ukrainian: зростати |
 Urdu: بڑھنا ، اضافہ ہونا |
 Vietnamese: tăng lên |
 Chinese: 增多 |
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