BUILD_UP meaning: Accumulation or increase over time

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word build up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

build up: Merriam-Webster
build-up, build-up, build up: Collins English Dictionary
build up: Vocabulary.com
Build-Up, Build-up, build-up: Wordnik
build-up, build (sb/sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
build-up, build up: Wiktionary
build-up, build up: Dictionary.com
Build Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
build up: Rhymezone
build-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
BUILD UP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
build-up, build up: FreeDictionary.org
build up: Mnemonic Dictionary
build-up, build up: TheFreeDictionary.com
build up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

build-up, build up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

build up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

build up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

build up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (build up)

▸ verb:  To erect; to construct.
▸ verb:  To close up by building.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To strengthen.
▸ verb:  (card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)
▸ noun:  Misspelling of buildup. [An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.]

Similar:

build, fortify, work up, progress, gird, arm, upbuild, put up, make up, go up, more...

Opposite:

tear down, demolish, destroy

Types:

plaque, calculus, tartar, scale, more...

Phrases:

build up to, Build Me Up Buttercup, to build up, build up confidence, build up over time, more...

Adjectives:

inset, up, underprint, built, set, erect, undernamed, create, flat, under, backing

Colors:

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, more...