Antonyms for build upbuild up

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1. build up

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

   Synonyms:
   augment, beget, breed, cherish, colonize, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

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1. • Develop
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1. build upverb

   enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages

   "build up your savings"

   Synonyms:
   progress, develop, fortify, build, ramp up, arm, work up, gird

2. build up, work up, build, progressverb

   form or accumulate steadily

   "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

   Synonyms:
   work out, fortify, get up, progress, come on, construct, go on, arm, build, come along, develop, move on, shape up, pass on, march on, get along, advance, establish, gird, ramp up, get on, make, work up

3. arm, build up, fortify, girdverb

   prepare oneself for a military confrontation

   "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border"

   Synonyms:
   progress, lace, develop, fortify, encircle, girdle, fort, build, ramp up, beef up, spike, arm, work up, strengthen, gird

4. build up, work up, build, ramp upverb

   bolster or strengthen

   "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"

   Synonyms:
   progress, develop, construct, make, fortify, get up, establish, build, ramp up, arm, work up, work out, gird

5. build up, developverb

   change the use of and make available or usable

   "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"

   Synonyms:
   rise, fortify, grow, educate, produce, progress, modernize, spring up, modernise, explicate, make grow, arm, acquire, evolve, build, germinate, develop, break, train, uprise, get, originate, gird, ramp up, recrudesce, formulate, arise, work up, prepare

How to use build up in a sentence?

1. Christina Wille:

   We could actually see that there was a build-up over several days of misinformation about what they call the ‘Ebola business,’ that this was all related to people inventing the disease.

2. Hugh Lewis:

   You can look at the build-up of plastic in Earth's oceans, and the build-up of junk in orbit around the Earth as being very similar, the Earth environment and the space environment -- is The Earth environment.

3. Loretta Mester:

   If effective monetary policy means taking away the punch bowl just as the party gets going, then effective financial stability policy might mean taking away the punch bowl before the guests have even arrived because the risks to financial stability build up over time and action likely needs to be taken earlier in order to be effective.

4. Kevin King:

   Patient fraudsters will try and mimic the patterns of young people or new immigrants – accepting poor credit offers at first and paying them off, to build up their credit score – with the ultimate goal of accessing big credit lines and charging off for large financial gain.

5. Paul Cruickshank:

   His teachings have deeply influenced jihadis in Syria -- how to build up an organization, how to win support for it.

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