单词 | building up |
释义 | building upn. The action of building someone or something up (in various senses). ΘΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waxingc1055 increasingc1340 increasec1374 echinga1382 creasing1398 augmentinga1400 alarginga1425 moringa1425 augmentc1425 incrementc1425 creasec1440 increasement1509 enlarginga1513 enlargement1564 amplification1569 accession1570 usury1576 enhancement1577 growth1587 creasement1592 accrease1598 crescence1602 improvement1607 excrement1608 majoration1626 heightening1629 auction1692 turgescence1806 outgrowth1837 steepening1868 prolating1919 upgrading1920 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (1872) l. 1979 Of buyldyng [c1415 Corpus Oxf. buldyng, c1425 Petworth beeldinge, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 bildyng] vp of chirches. 1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise 330 He in the gospel, which had taken great trauayle & care,..in plucking down his olde barnes, and buylding vp of new. 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea 151 For the building vp of their soules in Christ Iesus. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation vi. 99 God threatned sore Plagues to his People, because they were negligent in building up of the Earthly Temple. 1852 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. 37 Trifles..are levers in the building up of character. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 218/2 The mangrove..has had much to do with the building up of this western fringe of Florida. 1942 W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 36 The steady building-up of very powerful forces and bases there. 1988 J. Downing & M. Smith Ngura Walytja 100 The people talked a lot about doing..any work associated with the building up of their homeland communities. 2022 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 17 Mar. The city should do more to address the building up of snow and ice on catch basins, instead of leaving it to residents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.c1405 |
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