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verb

simple past tense and past participle of build.

adjective

Informal.
1. of sound or sturdy construction: These cars are really built.
2. having a good physique or figure: That lifeguard is really built!
Nautical. noting any member or part of a vessel assembled from pieces: built frame; built spar.

Related formswell-built, adjective

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Related Words for well-built

sinewy, burly, vigorous, sturdy, athletic, powerful, brawny, stout, robust, strapping, wiry, tough, secure, solid, durable, safe, steady, fast, permanent, calm

Examples from the Web for well-built

Contemporary Examples of well-built

The short-skirted purple uniform looks charming on the well-built girl with the large, sad, blue eyes.
The Stacks: The Searing Story of How Murder Stalked a Tiny New York Town
E. Jean Carroll
April 19, 2014

Historical Examples of well-built

The whole is a well-built machine for a pressure of the spirit.
Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863
Various
Henry was a well-built, vigorous man, and walked with great rapidity.
Henry IV, Makers of History
John S. C. Abbott
She is a strong, well-built, and safe boat, and I think will just answer your purpose.
Little By Little
William Taylor Adams
It was a well-built, athletic frame, and he had gone to a good tailor.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
Jerome K. Jerome
Sometimes a halt is made in villages of well-built grass huts.
From Pole to Pole
Sven Anders Hedin

British Dictionary definitions for well-built

well-built

adjective (well built when postpositive)

large or amplea well-built lady
having a good, strong constructionwell-built houses

built

verb

the past tense and past participle of build

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Word Origin and History for well-built

built

adj.

1560s, "constructed, erected," past participle adjective from build (v.). Meaning "physically well-developed" is by 1940s (well-built in reference to a woman is from 1871); Built-in (adj.) is from 1898.

Idioms and Phrases with well-built

built

see made (built) to order; not built that way; Rome wasn't built in a day. Also see under build.