Build and Reduce

Opposite meaning words

sentence examples collocations

Build

Build verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Build
Antonyms for Build
Reduce is an antonym for build in topics: develop, increase.
Nearby Words: built, building, buildup, builder

Reduce

Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Reduce
Antonyms for Reduce
Build is an antonym for reduce.
Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible
Similar words of build

Similar words of reduce

Common collocations

power build power reduce power
life build life reduce life
body build body reduce body
number build number reduce number
Other words: world, city, armor.

Both words in one sentence

  • Space Elevator In Starbase Orion, colonies can build space elevators to reduce the costs of building ships.
    Source: Space Elevator
  • Video Game / Don't Starve The trope name is applied literally as your cause of death when you build so many Meat Effigies that they reduce your health to zero (as Wilson and most other characters, this is five).
    Source: Video Game / Don't Starve
  • Emperor: Battle for Dune tried to reduce some of the Fridge Logic by showing the Construction Yard drilling and mining for resources to build the buildings with.
    Source: Command & Conquer Economy
More sentences
Cite this Source
Reduce and Build. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/reduce
Build & Reduce. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/reduce>.
Reduce or Build. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/reduce.

Antonyms for build


Antonyms for reduce

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "build" and "reduce" have occurred on timeline