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

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

From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Whipple, Wayne

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

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

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

His rude and venturesome life, his simple-minded love for the commonwealth he helped to upbuild, his contempt for rewards and praise, his extreme and sturdy independence, and the great services he had rendered the state.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

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 Rosenfeld, Paul