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built

verb , past tense of build

Synonyms and Antonyms of built

to form by putting together parts or materials

he spent hours building a model airplane from a kit

Synonyms of built

assembled, confected, constructed, erected, fabricated, made, made up, pieced, put up, raised, reared, set up

Words Related to built

carpentered, fashioned, forged, framed, hammered, handcrafted, manufactured, molded, produced, shaped

began, coined, created, generated, inaugurated, initiated, innovated, invented, originated

constituted, established, fathered, founded, instituted, organized

conceived, concocted, contrived, cooked (up), designed, devised, imagined, thought (up)

reassembled, rebuilt, reconstructed, redeveloped, reedified [British], retrofitted (or retrofit)

jerry-built, rigged (up), threw up

combined, united

Phrases Synonymous with built

Near Antonyms of built

demolished, destroyed, devastated, flattened, leveled (or levelled), pulled down, pulverized, razed, ruinated, ruined, shattered, smashed, wrecked

blew up, exploded

detached, disengaged

disconnected, disjoined, disunited, divided, separated

Antonyms of built

demounted, disassembled, dismantled, dismembered, knocked down, struck, took down, tore down

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