Build
Build verb - Form or accumulate steadily.
Usage example: Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
Progress
Progress verb - Form or accumulate steadily.
How words are described
| good | good build | good progress |
| exact | exact build | exact progress |
| common | common build | common progress |
| solid | solid build | solid progress |
| Other adjectives: current, light, great, slow, slight, impressive, decent, new, general, overall. | ||
Common collocations
| character | build character | progress character |
| power | build power | progress power |
| civilization | build civilization | progress civilization |
| relationship | build relationship | progress relationship |
Both words in one sentence
- Yandere Simulator is a work-in-progress game that its lone developer allows fans to play "debug build" versions.
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Crystal Spires and Togas: The Thran can build almost anything and have a society obsessed with progress and ascetics.
Source: Literature / The Thran - Worse, defense systems are not allowed for droids you build, and you can't save your progress.
Source: Nothing Is Scarier / Video Games
Cite this Source
Progress and Build. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/progress
Build & Progress. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/progress>.
Progress or Build. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/progress.
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