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Definition of Build upon
1. Verb. Be based on; of theories and claims, for example. "What's this new evidence based on?"
Generic synonyms: Depend On, Depend Upon, Devolve On, Hinge On, Hinge Upon, Ride, Turn On
Specialized synonyms: Owe
Definition of Build upon
1. Verb. (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts on top of a surface or foundation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Build Upon
Literary usage of Build upon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"In endeavouring to build upon it, even at the cost of an old British tradition,
Lord Salisbury has taken the first practical step in a movement full of the ..."
2. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"... and that they should not plant or build upon the island; it was none of their
ground. Why, says the Spaniard, very calmly, Seignior Ing- lese, ..."
3. Switzerland: Or, A Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country, in the by Louis Simond (1823)
"... and of the speculations which I have ventured to build upon them, I will here
give a transverse section of the lake and its banks. ab, surface of the ..."
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