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built
[ bilt ]
adjective
- Informal.
- of sound or sturdy construction:
These cars are really built.
- having a good physique or figure:
That lifeguard is really built!
- Nautical. noting any member or part of a vessel assembled from pieces:
built frame; built spar.
built
/ ɪ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of build
Other Word Forms
- ɱ-ܾ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of built1
Idioms and Phrases
see made (built) to order ; not built that way ; Rome wasn't built in a day . Also see under build .Example Sentences
At least seven have been built here over the past two years, including one by a small dam that regulates Sergele's water supply, rendering it off limits to villagers.
The ashram she built in the Santa Monica mountains was as subversive as any free school or fringe arts cohort, just without the shrillness of dogma.
AV Alta, a new USL League One club, has averaged 4,500 fans over its first three games playing in a stadium originally built for minor league baseball.
"They are built as a team with collective strength - you can see that from the way they attack and defend," he said.
I know Pierre Poilievre is not a Trump person, but my belief is that he saw how Trump built power in the US, and uses the same sorts of tactics to build his power here.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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