(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ something such as a building, road, or machine, you build it or make it.
The French ~ed a series of fortresses from Dunkirk on the Channel coast to Douai...
The boxes should be ~ed from rough-sawn timber...
They thought he had escaped through a specially ~ed tunnel.
= build
VERB: V n, be V-ed from/of/out of n, V-ed
2.
If you ~ something such as an idea, a piece of writing, or a system, you create it by putting different parts together.
He eventually ~ed a business empire which ran to Thailand and Singapore...
The novel is ~ed from a series of on-the-spot reports.
...using carefully ~ed tests.
= create
VERB: V n, be V-ed from/out of n, V-ed