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abuilding

American  
[uh-bil-ding] / əˈbɪl dɪŋ /

adjective

  1. in the process of building or being built.


Etymology

Origin of abuilding

First recorded in 1525–35; a- 1 + build + -ing 2

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With a mighty air armada abuilding, he is considering expanding to Florida and Georgia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The conservative Democratic Party and Independent Jugo Thoma, U.S.-appointed chief executive of the Okinawan government, doggedly defended their cooperation with the U.S. administration, pointed to schools built and roads abuilding.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the new U.S. embassy now abuilding in Warsaw, sharp-eyed security men found that Polish technicians had thoughtfully installed 18 bugs, connected them to a single underground conduit deep in the concrete foundations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Blitz buggies had already begun to roll off the assembly line, but the new $22,000,000 plant to house production of the aircraft engines was still abuilding.

From Time Magazine Archive

For centuries those walls have been abuilding; Smooth porphyry, they slope and coldly glass The flying storm and wheeling sun.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

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