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单词 jerry-building
释义

jerry-build

verb

jer·​ry-build ˈjer-ē-ˌbild How to pronounce jerry-build (audio)
jerry-built ˈjer-ē-ˌbilt How to pronounce jerry-build (audio) ; jerry-building

transitive verb

: to build cheaply and flimsily
jerry-builder noun

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from jerry-built

First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined above

jerry-building

verb

present participle of jerry-build
as in reedifying

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • reedifying
  • throwing up
  • rebuilding
  • retrofitting
  • rigging (up)
  • combining
  • reconstructing
  • reassembling
  • devising
  • designing
  • uniting
  • redeveloping
  • organizing
  • creating
  • concocting
  • beginning
  • cooking (up)
  • imagining
  • establishing
  • instituting
  • generating
  • originating
  • founding
  • inventing
  • contriving
  • building
  • conceiving
  • constituting
  • thinking (up)
  • fathering
  • coining
  • manufacturing
  • innovating
  • initiating
  • making up
  • shaping
  • inaugurating
  • molding
  • setting up
  • fashioning
  • prefabricating
  • constructing
  • carpentering
  • piecing
  • producing
  • framing
  • forging
  • hammering
  • putting up
  • rearing
  • assembling
  • erecting
  • handcrafting
  • fabricating
  • confecting
  • making
  • raising

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • tearing down
  • taking down
  • knocking down
  • striking
  • dismantling
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • disassembling
  • blowing up
  • wrecking
  • ruining
  • flattening
  • smashing
  • dismembering
  • pulling down
  • demolishing
  • leveling
  • shattering
  • pulverizing
  • levelling
  • ruinating
  • exploding
  • razing
  • demounting
  • separating
  • detaching
  • dividing
  • disengaging
  • disconnecting
  • disuniting
  • disjoining
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