upbuild
Americanverb (used with object)
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In other walks of life many of those old veterans have achieved fame and success, and have proved an honor and a credit to the country they have spent their lives in endeavoring to upbuild.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by John A. (John Alexander) MacDonald
People have been a long time learning that thoughts are things to heal, upbuild, strengthen; or to wound, impair, or blight.
From In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung
Later, they had fought the Mexican and in time they came to fight each other, for and against the nation they had done so much to upbuild.
From Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War by John Fox
But Parsons could wait—wait and upbuild his property.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
For all of these things degrade and do not upbuild mankind.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
“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
Because he is a Georgia Democrat close to Franklin Delano Roosevelt his views on upbuilding the Navy were generally accepted as those of the incoming Administration.
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
"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
The years that followed the War of 1812 were devoted by Messrs. Hart & Lay to a new upbuilding of their business.
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Frank H. Severance
"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
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
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
English blood, which, following after—because Columbus had first shown the way—peopled, saved and upbuilt the whole magnificent northern land that Spain missed and lost.
From The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral by Elbridge Streeter Brooks
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
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