Definition of built

"built" in the verb sense

1. construct, build, make

make by combining materials and parts

"this little pig made his house out of straw"

"Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

2. build up, work up, build, progress

form or accumulate steadily

"Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"

"Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

3. build, establish

build or establish something abstract

"build a reputation"

4. build

improve the cleansing action of

"build detergents"

5. build

order, supervise, or finance the construction of

"The government is building new schools in this state"

6. build

give form to, according to a plan

"build a modern nation"

"build a million-dollar business"

7. build

be engaged in building

"These architects build in interesting and new styles"

8. build

found or ground

"build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation"

9. build up, work up, build, ramp up

bolster or strengthen

"We worked up courage"

"build up confidence"

"ramp up security in the airports"

10. build

develop and grow

"Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

"built" in the adjective sense

1. built, reinforced

used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

"the built liquid detergents"

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Quotations for built

Perseverance built a house. [ Tacquet ]

Society is built upon trust. [ South ]

Virtue is built upon itself. [ Proverb ]

Rome was not built in a day. [ Proverb ]

Rome was not built in one day. [ Heywood ]

I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white.
The violets, and the lily-cups
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set,
The laburnum on his birthday -
The tree is living yet. [ Hood ]

On argument alone my faith is built. [ Young ]

The Raven's house is built with reeds, -
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his beads
In penance for his past misdeeds.
Upon the top I see. [ Thos. Darcy McGee ]

Mark her majestic fabric; she's a temple
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine;
Her soul's the Deity that lodges there;
Nor is the pile unworthy of the God. [ Dryden ]

Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And as great seamen, using all their wealth
And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths.
In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass,
To put a girdle round about the world. [ Geo. Chapman ]

How is night's sable mantle labored over.
How richly wrought with attributes divine!
What wisdom shines! what love! this midnight pomp.
This gorgeous arch, with golden worlds inlaid!
Built with divine ambition. [ Young ]

Look on the bee upon the wing among flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts. [ Bailey ]

That which builds is better than that which is built. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Glory built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt. [ Cowper ]

A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]

Virtue is the only ground for friendship to be built upon. [ Proverb ]

A house built by the way-side is either too high or too low. [ Proverb ]

Pater-noster built churches, and our father pulled them down. [ Proverb ]

Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. [ Varro ]

The architect built his great heart into those sculptured stones. [ Longfellow ]

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. [ John A. Shedd ]

There is a fault in the house, but would you have it built without any. [ Proverb ]

More credit may be thrown down in a moment, than can be built in an age. [ Proverb ]

No sooner is a temple built to God but the devil builds a chapel hard by. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom nature hath built many stories high. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. [ Stillingfleet ]

High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more,
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. [ Young ]

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. [ Colton ]

Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. [ Bacon ]

High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge. [ Carlyle ]

Many men build as cathedrals were built, - the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. [ Beecher ]

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, - others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. [ Hawthorne ]

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it. [ Miss Oakey ]

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

built in Scrabble®

The word built is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters built:

BUILT
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built in Words With Friends™

The word built is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters built:

BUILT
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Words within the letters of built

2 letter words in built (1 word)

3 letter words in built (4 words)

5 letter words in built (1 word)

Words containing the sequence built

Words that start with built (1 word)

Words with built in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving built

Shorter words in built

(No shorter words found)

Longer words containing built

coachbuilt

misbuilt

outbuilt

overbuilt

rebuilt prebuilt

unbuilt

underbuilt

upbuilt

wellbuilt