build up

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Noun Phrase, Verb (transitive)

THESAURUS

build up

add to, advertise, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, assemble, augment, ballyhoo, bark, bill, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, bulk, bulk out, bulletin, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, circularize, combine, compose, consist of, constitute, construct, crescendo, cry, cry up, deepen, deteriorate, develop, dilate, distend, draw the longbow, embitter, embody, enhance, enlarge, enter into, establish, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, exasperate, expand, extend, fabricate, fatten, fill out, form, give a write-up, give publicity, go into, go to extremes, heat up, heighten, hike, hike up, hot up, huff, hyperbolize, incorporate, increase, inflate, intensify, irritate, jack up, join, jump up, lay it on, lengthen, magnify, make, make acute, make much of, make up, make worse, maximize, merge in, mix, organize, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, piece together, pile it on, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, promote, provoke, publicize, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put together, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, sell, set up, sharpen, sour, spiel, stretch, stretch the truth, structure, sufflate, swell, synthesize, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken, tout, travesty, unite in, up, widen, worsen, write up

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build up

Composition

VB be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of, consist of, be resolved into, include, contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody, involve, implicate, drag into, compose, constitute, form, make, make up, fill up, build up, enter into the composition of.