upbuild

American  

[uhp-bild] / ʌpˈbɪld /

verb (used with object)

upbuilt, upbuilding

1. to build up, as with the result of establishing, increasing, enlarging, or fortifying.

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upbuild British  

/ ʌpˈbɪld /

verb

1. (tr) to build up; enlarge, increase, etc

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Other Word Forms

• upbuilder
  noun

Etymology

Origin of upbuild

First recorded in 1505–15; up- + build

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

upbuild upbuilding upbuilt

Yet I can only indicate his work, not portray it; tell some of its elements, and then leave them to the moral sympathies of the reader to upbuild.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

These virtues are especially fitted to upbuild and to maintain the feudal order of society.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

For there is a truly primitive and savage power in the imagination that could heap such piles of music, revel in the shattering fury of trumpets, upbuild choragic pyramids.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

He was a liberal man, ever ready to embark his means in enterprises calculated to upbuild and aid in the progress of Seattle.

From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

Then Marconi came to London to upbuild and link nation to nation more closely.

From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Wayne Whipple

“The Life of Emile Zola” may be described as memorable, and the sort of picture that is upbuilding for the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

"As between a lobby in favor of ship building companies and one carried on indirectly by some foreign power against the upbuilding of our merchant marine, I see no moral difference and condemn each."

From Time Magazine Archive

I particularly enjoin upon my sons . . . the duty of preserving . . . the World newspaper to the maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength.

From Time Magazine Archive

Job's Daughters, aged 13 to 20, "band together girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders."

From Time Magazine Archive

What are the arguments for and against granting government subsidies for the upbuilding of the merchant marine?

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner

We are told by one of them that "she had upbuilt with strenuous pains a resolute virtue," conquering many faults, and gaining a lofty nobleness of spirit.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke

I believe this: If, when we pass into the Unknown, we continue to exist as individual consciousnesses, then we carry with us the heaven and the hell that we have each upbuilt for ourselves.”

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm

The sea was thus kept shallow, and at times, especially toward the close of the era, much of the area was upbuilt or raised to low, marshy, coastal plains.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

"So fancy limns him, who'll not cease To watch o'er what his brain upbuilt," Punch sang.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 by Various

Pedrarias lived until his eighty-ninth year, and died in his bed at Panama; which town had been first visited by one of his captains, Tello de Guzman, founded by Espinosa and upbuilt by himself.

From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady