built
[bilt]
- simple past tense and past participle of build.
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- Informal.
- of sound or sturdy construction: These cars are really built.
- 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.
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Examples from the Web for well-built
Contemporary Examples
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 TownE. Jean Carroll
April 19, 2014
Historical Examples
The whole is a well-built machine for a pressure of the spirit.
Henry was a well-built, vigorous man, and walked with great rapidity.
Henry IV, Makers of HistoryJohn S. C. Abbott
She is a strong, well-built, and safe boat, and I think will just answer your purpose.
Little By LittleWilliam Taylor Adams
It was a well-built, athletic frame, and he had gone to a good tailor.
All Roads Lead to CalvaryJerome K. Jerome
Sometimes a halt is made in villages of well-built grass huts.
From Pole to PoleSven Anders Hedin
well-built
- large or amplea well-built lady
- having a good, strong constructionwell-built houses
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built
- 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.
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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.
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