Other forms: build-ups
A build-up is a gradual increase before something happens. Feel the build-up.
It is used of traffic, of pressure and of the weeks before an event. A build-up is often more enjoyable than the thing it leads to, which everybody admits afterwards.
1nounbuild-upA gradual increase before something happens.
“The build-up took three weeks and the match took ninety minutes.”
build-up is an increase.
a deverbal from build up.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Phrasal Verbs