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built (root: build)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective built has 1 sense
- built(s = adj.all) reinforced - (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness; "the built liquid detergents"
CIDE DICTIONARY
built, n.
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
built, a.
Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. [1913 Webster]
"Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built."
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THESAURUS
built
Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, assembled, becoming, bonny, braw, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, cast, comely, constructed, crafted, created, curvaceous, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted, fabricated, fair, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, likely, lovely to behold, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, prefab, prefabricated, presentable, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, rounded, shaped, shapely, sightly, slender, smelted, stacked, statuesque, well-built, well-constructed, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked
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