Definition of "built-up"

Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood.

2003, Roselynn Ederer, Saginaw County, Michigan

The picture below dates to about 1860 and shows the Point not too many years after the construction of the Long Dock, seen here as a strip of built-up roadway just wide enough for two horsedrawn wagons to pass each other.

2009, Richard Philp, Catskill Village

Forget any idyllic Garden of Eden of running when we ran barefootand naked before Adam plucked a shoe with a built-up heel from the tree of running.

2014, Nicholas Romanov, Kurt Brungardt, The Running Revolution

Gunther's car was a '38 Oldsmobile with a built-up seat and special elongated pedals put on by Arnie the garageman for a reasonable price.

2014, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Never Cross a Vampire

The stained-glass windows were cleaned; years of built-up soil removed from the murals; the wooden pews sanded and refinished, the kneeling benches covered with soft new carpeting.

2008, Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now?

His analytical method gradually strips away built-up defensive layers of the personality until we are able to see our true selves.

2011, Ruth Snowden, Understanding Jung

This slowed entry into the bowel reduces built-up gas and runny poos which leads to a happier, more contented baby.

2012, Jan Murray, Mum, Baby & Toddler

All the built-up passion that I'd put to rest when I fell asleep last night came back with full force.

2014, Kelly Carrero, Paradox

She picketed the skewbald paint with the others, then filled the coffeepot at the creek and started a fresh batch brewing on the built-up fire.

2012, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Sins of Laughing Lyle

World society, as Williams puts it, 'is something of which we need to be suspicious because of the risks that its pursuit may create for the painfully built-up and relatively fragile structures of order that exist among states.

2012, J. Troy, Christian Approaches to International Affairs

Model 3 presents an amazing illustration of all else being equal where I regress the housing prices as a function of number of bedrooms and the square footage of the built-up area of the house.

2015, Murtaza Haider, Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics

It was all more built-up, she claimed, more busy; and there were objects around which were new and unidentifiable.

2012, SK Webb, The Deviant Apparition

As they left the built-up centre of Glasgow the buildings gradually thinned out, and there was a feeling of light and space that she had never experienced before.

2012, Meg Henderson, Chasing Angels

Back then, any built-up place with walls surrounding it and a population of over ten thousand people was considered a “city.”

2014, James F. Dunnigan, Daniel Masterson, The Way of the Warrior