upbuild

American  

[uhp-bild] / ʌpˈbɪld /

verb (used with object)

upbuilt, upbuilding

1. to build up, as with the result of establishing, increasing, enlarging, or fortifying.

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upbuild British  

/ ʌpˈbɪld /

verb

1. (tr) to build up; enlarge, increase, etc

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Other Word Forms

• upbuilder noun

Etymology

Origin of upbuild

First recorded in 1505–15; up- + build

Example Sentences

In other walks of life many of those old veterans have achieved fame and success, and have proved an honor and a credit to the country they have spent their lives in endeavoring to upbuild.

From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by MacDonald, John A. (John Alexander)

The imagination has oft painted Howard University as a temple—a temple of knowledge,—a temple for the teaching of justice; a temple for the upbuild of mankind.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

These virtues are especially fitted to upbuild and to maintain the feudal order of society.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

Then Marconi came to London to upbuild and link nation to nation more closely.

From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Whipple, Wayne

All has been ground to powder and carried off by flood and stream to enrich the soils and upbuild later strata in the drainage basins of the Saskatchewan, the Columbia, and the Mississippi.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling