Scrabble & Words with friends points
- build is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
- build is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
- build is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of build
- make by combining materials and parts (verb)
Synonyms
- construct
- make
- build or establish something abstract (verb)
Examples
- build a reputation
Synonyms
- establish
- constitution of the human body (noun)
Synonyms
- body-build
- habitus
- physique
- bolster or strengthen (verb)
Examples
- build up confidence
Synonyms
- build up
- ramp up
- work up
- form or accumulate steadily (verb)
Examples
- Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
Synonyms
- build up
- progress
- work up
- alternative names for the body of a human being (noun)
Synonyms
- anatomy
- bod
- chassis
- figure
- flesh
- form
- frame
- human body
- material body
- physical body
- physique
- shape
- soma
- be engaged in building (verb)
Examples
- These architects build in interesting and new styles
- develop and grow (verb)
Examples
- Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera
- found or ground (verb)
Examples
- build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation
- give form to, according to a plan (verb)
Examples
- build a modern nation
- build a million-dollar business
- improve the cleansing action of (verb)
Examples
- build detergents
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of (verb)
Examples
- The government is building new schools in this state
See definition of build in Merriam Webster