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ERECTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erecting mean? 

ERECTING (noun)
  The noun ERECTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of building or putting upplay

  Familiarity information: ERECTING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ERECTING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of building or putting up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

erecting; erection

Hypernyms ("erecting" is a kind of...):

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Derivation:

erect (construct, build, or erect)


 Context examples 


The heat I had contracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado; and the humour prevailed so strongly among the people, that there is not a town of any consequence in the kingdom without such an academy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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