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

This was doubtless due to his own punctiliousness and thorough devotion to system as well as to his often baffled wish to diversify his crops and upbuild his fields.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

But Parsons could wait—wait and upbuild his property.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

The magic-like upbuild of the cantonment, moreover, was the signal for the extension of the electric line to encircle the very center of the big military city, thus adding an additional link of convenience.

From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by Bachman, William Elmer

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 Still, William

The waves upbuild the wasting shore: Where mountains towered the billows sweep: Yet still their borrowed spoils restore And raise new empires from the deep.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.