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upbuilt

upbuilt is the simple past and past participle of upbuild.

Meaning of upbuild

Verb

upbuild (third-person singular simple present upbuilds, present participle upbuilding, simple past and past participle upbuilt or upbuilded)

  1. (transitive) To build up (literally).
    • […] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […]1876, American Journal of Science, volume 111, page 299
  2. (transitive) To build up; to develop (figuratively).
    • Briefly, the Republic, as he sees it, was upbuilt by a cunningly manipulated political machine that reared a seemingly solid superstructure on the false foundation of the interests of a class rather than of the people.1904, The Outlook, volume 76, page 616

Questions about upbuilt

What is upbuilt the simple past and past participle of?
Upbuilt is the simple past and past participle of upbuild.

Words near upbuilt in the dictionary

  1. upbuilder
  2. upbuilders
  3. upbuilding
  4. upbuildings
  5. upbuilds
  6. upbuilt
  7. upbulging
  8. upbuoy
  9. upbuoyance
  10. upbuoyed
  11. upbuoying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upbuilt (page history and authors); upbuild (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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