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

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Etymology

Origin of upbuild

First recorded in 1505–15; up- + build

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

upbuild upbuilding upbuilt

And if it failed, God forbid, it would be for them to heal, to mend, to upbuild, and, undaunted, push on and upward again.

From The Heart of the Hills by John Fox

He had come to Rockhaven to upbuild his fortune, believing himself in a fair way to do so.

From Rockhaven by Charles Clark Munn

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

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

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 E. E. Brown

“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

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

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

They have given great soldiers, statesmen, scientists, educators and men of business to the upbuilding of their adopted country.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vittoria Colonna is one of the best illustrations in history of what a noble and intellectual woman can do for the upbuilding of society.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

"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

One by one the tops of the distant hills began to clear, and with the glass we could discern the bonfire cairns upbuilt here and there for Scotland's evening sacrifice of love and fealty.

From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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

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

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