BUILDING UP Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

building up

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Definition of building up next

present participle of build up

as in increasing

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number static electricity built up on the cat's fur

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as in growing (in)

to gradually increase in the roller coaster built up momentum

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as in accumulating

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels

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as in expanding

to make greater in size, amount, or number he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele

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Recent Examples of building up While the petition is just the latest in an ongoing crusade to tame the streets, tension in the neighborhood is building up, and for good reason. —

Anne Kadet, Curbed, 29 May 2026 Brown is still building up his pitch count with his transition from the bullpen to the rotation, requiring high efficiency facing Major League Baseball’s best offense to give them that many outs. —

Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026 According to Gabrielle Correale, Ground Up’s director of marketing, the shoe firm is responsible for building up each brand’s footwear category. —

Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 15 May 2026 Long is in the process of building up to full fitness following his return from Achilles surgery. —

Josh Gross, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026 The divisions underscore the West’s challenges in combating China; following decades of building up its supply chains, Beijing now controls 90% of global processing. —

Semafor Events, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026 Aside from building up a slight static charge, the Artemis 2 commander said the flywheel was impressive. —

Tariq Malik, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026 Helping the club’s cause was Schlittler, who was expectedly restricted to 68 pitches after a spring training back/lat injury prevented him from fully building up. —

Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026 In the earliest of these changes, a tangled version of a protein called tau starts building up in a tiny region deep in the brain involved in sleep, attention and alertness, called the locus coeruleus. —

Elizabeth Riley, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026

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Leading up to Election Day, the Democratic share of those later ballots, which often determine the outcome in California, was steadily increasing as liberal-leaning voters began to make their choice.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 5 June 2026
At that time, Musk accused the FTC of aggressively increasing the number of investigative demands.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 4 June 2026