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What (who) is build up - definition
build up
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Build Up (Rita Lee album)
1.
If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
The regime built up the largest army in Africa...
Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P, also V n P, V P to n
2.
If you build someone up, you help them to feel stronger or more confident, especially when they have had a bad experience or have been ill.
Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear...
PHRASAL VERB: V n P
3.
If you build someone or something up, you make them seem important or exciting, for example by talking about them a lot.
The media will report on it and the tabloids will build it up...
Historians built him up as the champion of parliament...
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V n P as n/-ing
4.
build up
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Build Up (Rita Lee album)
v.
1) (D; tr.) to build up into (they built him up into a huge success)
2) (D; intr.) to build up to (the tension built up to a climax)
build up
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Build Up (Rita Lee album)
Establish, settle, preserve, increase, strengthen.
Wikipedia
Build Up
| recorded = 1970 in Estúdio Scatena, São Paulo
Examples of use of build up
1. Perhaps Rooney‘s just seen his fiance‘s shopping bills! – Phil Bailey, Shrewsbury Post – achievement depression Build up, nearly there, build up.
2. Pranab Mukherjkes visit to Washington, and also the build-up, military build-up and Chinese threat in the region.
3. Pranab Mukherjke‘s visit to Washington, and also the build–up, military build–up and Chinese threat in the region.
4. FOAM PREVENTS ICE BUILD–UP The foam prevents the build–up of potentially damaging ice when the tank is filled with fuel.
5. The sheer mediocrity of United‘s build–up is astounding.