Build
Make up
Make up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked “some assembly required”
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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With a certain build from that book, this makes it possible to make up to fourteen attacks in a single round (six seconds).
Source: Time Stands Still -
The Arthur×Merlin slashers here make up something like 85% of the show's overall fanbase, and in fairness, it's not as if they haven't been provided with fertile soil on which to build. Unconvinced?
Source: Slash Fic -
Cleo and Michel respectively make up the main pair, though it tends to reverse itself whenever Michel begins to break down and Cleo has to build her back up.
Source: Anime / Glass Fleet
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Make up and Build. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/make_up
Build & Make up. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/make_up>.
Make up or Build. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/make_up.
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