His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.
Denton, who speaks in the clipped cadence of the Oxford-educated Brit he is, has built quite a castle.
According to a military spokesperson, Boko Haram had built a “female wing” in its command structure.
In fact, a large portion of the whole book was built on that anecdote.
They were built upon high cliffs and rumor had it that no enemy could take them.
The house had been built only three years, and was the show-place of the village.
We are all in favor of having it built as promptly as possible.
Traditions and instructions helped me in that they built the ship in which I was to put to sea.
1560s, "constructed, erected," past participle adjective from build (v.). Meaning "physically well-developed" is by 1940s (well-built in reference to a woman is from 1871); Built-in (adj.) is from 1898.
late Old English byldan "construct a house," verb form of bold "house," from Proto-Germanic *buthlam (cf. Old Saxon bodl, Old Frisian bodel "building, house"), from PIE *bhu- "to dwell," from root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow" (see be). Rare in Old English; in Middle English it won out over more common Old English timbran (see timber). Modern spelling is unexplained. Figurative use from mid-15c. Of physical things other than buildings from late 16c. Related: Builded (archaic); built; building.
In the United States, this verb is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fennimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune; the lawyer a reputation; the landlord a town; and the tailor, as in England, BUILDS up a suit of clothes. A fire is BUILT instead of made, and the expression is even extended to individuals, to be BUILT being used with the meaning of formed. [Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues," 1890]
"style of construction," 1660s, from build (v.). Earlier in this sense was built (1610s). Meaning "physical construction and fitness of a person" attested by 1981. Earliest sense, now obsolete, was "a building" (early 14c.).
noun
verb
To prepare someone for swindling, extortion, etc; SET someone UP (1920s+ Underworld)
[first noun sense perhaps influenced by earlier build, ''the look and shape of tailored clothing'']
