build
verb (used with object)
to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials.
had builded
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past perfectof build.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, he was not lying; his own triumph had outrun him; he had builded even better in evil than even he could have hoped.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
Old Cy had builded wiser than he realized when he coaxed Ray to spend a winter in the woods.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Charles Clark Munn
He had seen the sunrise in a thousand forms, and the Storm King had builded mountains of black and gold for him.
From Tales and Trails of Wakarusa by Alexander Miller Harvey
