(Homonym: billed).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: built).
1. To be engaged in building.
2. To build or establish something abstract; SYN. establish.
3. To develop and grow.
4. To found or ground.
5. To give form to, according to a plan.
6. To order, supervise, or finance the construction of.
1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct.
3. To set up or assemble.
4. (Argumentation) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.