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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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Verses from the Holy Koran echoed in the sumptuous banquet hall of the garish new six-story hotel that stands almost alone in Pakistan's still abuilding capital of Islamabad.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition to Nam Pong dam, five other power and irrigation projects costing $50.7 million are built or abuilding on Mekong tributaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month it had been announced that on the first leg of his trip Cardinal Pacelli would formally inaugurate Vatican City's $1,500,000 railroad system, abuilding since 1929.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not far away, a new Hilton was 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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