built-up

Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.

Built-up weights in the wheels balance the revolving and 50 per cent of the reciprocating weight.

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

Having increased in size, quantity, or intensity over time; accumulated.

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.

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

Constructed or enhanced.

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.

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.

Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.

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

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.

(of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.