• v.
    ⦿form or accumulate steadily
    lexical concept
  • Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
  • Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:build
  2. enl:build up
  3. enl:progress
  4. enl:work up
wn:interlingual indexili:i22980

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelbuildbuild upprogresswork up