Meaning of upbuild | Babel Free
Definitions
- To build up (literally).
- To build up; to develop (figuratively).
Examples
“[…] 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 […]”
“These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.”
“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.”
“It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have⟳ been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]”
“The cultured, on the other hand, are only upbuilt by forgetting about the petty, individual circumstances of life: […]”
““For 300 years as bondsmen and some 93 years as freemen, under slaver’s whip and Jim Crow law,” Mr. Jackson wrote in The Daily Worker in 1958, “Negro Americans have⟳ yielded up their labor and expended their lives for the upbuilding of this country in yet unfathomed measure⟳.””
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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