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Upbuild

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To build up (literally). transitive

    "[…] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […]"

  2. 2
    To build up; to develop (figuratively). transitive

    "Briefly, the Republic, as he sees it, was upbuilt by a cunningly manipulated political machine that reared a seemingly solid superstructure on the false foundation of the interests of a class rather than of the people."

Etymology

From up- + build.

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