Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Built (b[i^]lt);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p.
   Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to
   build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b[=o]l farm, abode, Dan. bol
   small farm, OSw. bol, b["o]le, house, dwelling, fr. root of
   Icel. b[=u]a to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. [root]97.]
   1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any
      kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular
      structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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            Nor aught availed him now
            To have built in heaven high towers.  --Milton.
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   2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or
      produce by using appropriate means.
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            Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and
      stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; --
      frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
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            I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace,
            which is able to build you up.        --Acts xx. 32.
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   Syn: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.
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	Built \Built\ (b[i^]lt), n.
   Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.
   [Obs.] --Dryden.
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	Built \Built\, a.
   Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in
   composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as,
   frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
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         Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly
         built.                                   --Landor.
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	built
    adj 1: (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an
           abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness; "the
           built liquid detergents" [syn: built, reinforced]

	

	82 Moby Thesaurus words for "built":
   Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, assembled, becoming, bonny,
   braw, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, cast,
   comely, constructed, crafted, created, curvaceous, curvesome,
   curvilinear, curvy, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted,
   fabricated, fair, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered,
   goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grown, handcrafted, handmade,
   harvested, homemade, homespun, likely, lovely to behold,
   machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made,
   manufactured, milled, mined, molded, personable, pleasing,
   pneumatic, prefab, prefabricated, presentable, processed,
   put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made,
   ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, rounded, shaped, shapely,
   sightly, slender, smelted, stacked, statuesque, well-built,
   well-constructed, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed,
   well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked