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Adjective built-up has 1 sense
- built-up - peopled with settlers; "the built-up areas"
Antonym: unsettled (indirect, via settled)
Verb build-up has 5 senses
- build up - enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages; "build up your savings"
--1 is one way to increase
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- 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"
--2 is one way to develop
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- 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 Iraqui border"
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- build up, work up, build, ramp up - bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
--4 is one way to increase
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- 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"
--5 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
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