su|per|struct

su|per|struct
su|per|struct «SOO puhr STRUHKT», transitive verb.
to build upon something else; erect as a superstructure: »

Figurative. Those…on whose approbation his esteem of himself was superstructed (Samuel Johnson).

[< Latin superstructus, past participle of superstruere < super- over + struere to build]

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