upbuild
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […]"
- "These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations."
- "Briefly, the Republic, as he sees it, was upbuilt by a cunningly manipulated political machine that reared a seemingly solid superstructure on the false foundation of the interests of a class rather than of the people."
- "It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]"
- "The cultured, on the other hand, are only upbuilt by forgetting about the petty, individual circumstances of life: […]"
- "“For 300 years as bondsmen and some 93 years as freemen, under slaver’s whip and Jim Crow law,” Mr. Jackson wrote in The Daily Worker in 1958, “Negro Americans have yielded up their labor and expended their lives for the upbuilding of this country in yet unfathomed measure.”"
Etymology
From up- + build.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: up