Built-up Definition

bĭltŭp
adjective
Made higher, stronger, larger, etc. by the addition of parts.
Built-up heels.
Webster's New World
Made by fastening several layers or sections one on top of the other.
A built-up roof.
American Heritage
Having many buildings on it.
A built-up suburb.
Webster's New World
(UK) (of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.
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Alternative spelling of built-up.

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verb
Simple past tense and past participle of build up.
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Built-up Sentence Examples

  • This board is built up in sections of one or more operators' positions each.

  • Our internal electrical system works by using cells that have built up electrical gradient or energy that can be given off to other cells by direct transfer.

  • We'd built up a library of recorded sessions but became concerned about properly securing them.

  • I figured he romanticized the place, built up in his mind how beautiful it was, but he didn't.

  • Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.

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