built-up
Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.
Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
Constructed or enhanced.
Forget any idyllic Garden of Eden of running when we ran barefootand naked before Adam plucked a shoe with a built-up heel from the tree of running.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
Having increased in size, quantity, or intensity over time; accumulated.
The picture below dates to about 1860 and shows the Point not too many years after the construction of the Long Dock, seen here as a strip of built-up roadway just wide enough for two horsedrawn wagons to pass each other.
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