(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If people ~ something such as a building, bridge, or barrier, they build it or create it. (FORMAL)
Opposition demonstrators have ~ed barricades in roads leading to the parliament building...
The building was ~ed in 1900-1901...
We all unconsciously ~ barriers against intimacy.
= construct
VERB: V n, V n, V n
2.
If you ~ a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it.
Japanese proprietors are ~ing a complex infrastructure of political influence throughout America...
He ~ed a new doctrine of precedent.
VERB: V n, V n
3.
People or things that are ~ are straight and upright.
Stand reasonably ~, your arms hanging naturally...
ADJ