build
verb (used with object)
to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials.
outbuild
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a word derived from
build.
Example Sentences
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A country that can outbuild and outsupply its rivals is hard to defeat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
And it means, as much as possible, repeating the president’s State of the Union exhortation for students, teachers, scientists and business executives to “out-innovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011
The chief reason the U.S. could thus strut its new-won power was that it could outbuild Japan, in ships, planes and weapons.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. can outbuild Japan time & time again in aircraft or ships.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Romans, with extraordinary energy and in spite of the fact that they had little naval experience, set themselves to outbuild the Carthaginians.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
