Build up
Build up verb - To become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number.
Structure
Structure verb - Give a structure to.
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Synonyms for Structure
Build up and structure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Build up" instead a verb "Structure".
Both terms in one sentence
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When the girls try to build up their courage prior to the Chicken Shack robbery, one of them says "Just pretend it's a video game." The final shootout itself is very video game-like in its structure.
Source: Film / Spring Breakers - For mechanical energy to build up in the structure, it has to be added faster than damping turns it to heat.
- Deep-sea tubeworms about methane "cold seeps" have been calculated to live for more than 200 years, based on their glacially-slow metabolism and the time it takes them to build up the structure of their tubes.
Source: We Are as Mayflies
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Structure and Build up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build_up/structure
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