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built (bilt)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

build

adjective

Informal having a well-formed, physically attractive body: said usually of a woman

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built

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  1. Erected

    constructed, fabricated, manufactured, made, put together, produced, assembled, set up, contrived, reared, raised, remodeled, completed, joined, perfected, finished, realized, established, created, formed, cast, forged, framed; see also formed.

  2. *Buxom

    well-proportioned, shapely, stacked*; see buxom 2.


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It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It isnotthestreetsthatexist.It isthestreetsthat no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.

-Fenton,James

Nous avons ba"  ti sur le sable Des cathe¤  drales impe¤  rissables. We have built immovable cathedrals In the sand.

-Gide, Andre¤   Paul Guillaume

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way, It ran a hundred years to a day.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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