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1 PHRASAL VERB If you build up something or if it builds up , it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it. □ [V P n] The regime built up the largest army in Africa. □ [V P ] Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface. [Also V n P , V P + to ]

2 PHRASAL VERB 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. □ [V n P ] Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear.

3 PHRASAL VERB If you build someone or something up , you make them seem important or exciting, for example by talking about them a lot. □ [V n P ] The media will report on it and the tabloids will build it up. □ [V n P + as ] Historians built him up as the champion of parliament.

4 → see also build 6 , build 8 , build-up , built-up

▸  build up to PHRASAL VERB If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually. □ [V P P n] We had been building up to this point for many months.

build|er /b I ldə ^r / (builders ) N‑COUNT A builder is a person whose job is to build or repair houses and other buildings. □  The builders have finished the roof.

build|ing ◆◆◆ /b I ld I ŋ/ (buildings ) N‑COUNT A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory. □  They were on the upper floor of the building. □  Crowds gathered around the Parliament building. COLLOCATIONS building NOUN

noun + building : farm, government, office, school

adjective + building : derelict, historic, listed, Victorian; high-rise, public, residential, tall; brick, stone

verb + building : construct, erect, renovate; demolish, destroy; evacuate, occupy

bui ld|ing block (building blocks ) N‑COUNT If you describe something as a building block of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing. □ [+ of ] …molecules that are the building blocks of all life on earth.

bui ld|ing site (building sites ) N‑COUNT A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.

bui ld|ing so|ci|ety (building societies ) N‑COUNT In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.

bui ld-up (build-ups ) also buildup , build up

1 N‑COUNT [usu sing] A build-up is a gradual increase in something. □ [+ of ] There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border. □ [+ of ] The disease can also cause a build up of pressure in the inner ear leading to severe earache.

2 N‑COUNT [usu sing] The build-up to an event is the way that journalists, advertisers, or other people talk about it a lot in the period of time immediately before it, and try to make it seem important and exciting. □  The exams came, almost an anti-climax after the build-up that the students had given them.

built /b I lt/

1Built is the past tense and past participle of build .

2 ADJ [adv ADJ ] If you say that someone is built in a particular way, you are describing the kind of body they have. □  …a strong, powerfully-built man of 60. □  He was a huge man, built like an oak tree.

3 → see also well-built

bui lt-i n ADJ [ADJ n] Built-in devices or features are included in something as a part of it, rather than being separate. □  …a built-in double oven. □  We're going to have built-in cupboards in the bedrooms.