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building upverbpresent participle of build up to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberstatic electricity built up on the cat's fur accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning to gradually increase inthe roller coaster built up momentum gaining, gathering, growing (in), picking up doubling (in), tripling (in)accruing, accumulating, amassingexciting, stimulatingenhancing, enlarging, enriching, expanding, extending, maximizingboosting, elevating, jacking (up), mounting, ramping (up), stepping up decreasing (in), losing abating, declining (in), diminishing (in), dipping, dwindling, falling (in), lessening, tapering, tapering off to gradually form into a layer, pile, or massevidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels accreting, accumulating, amassing, collecting, concentrating, conglomerating, gathering, massing, piling (up), stacking (up) agglutinating, clumping, lumpingbanking, drifting, ridging dispersing, dissipating, scattering to make greater in size, amount, or numberhe patiently built up his coin collection over several decades the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching |