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Synonyms of building
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- English class will be in that big stone building over there
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of building (Entry 2 of 2)
- he spent hours building a model airplane from a kit
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- carpentering,
- fashioning,
- forging,
- framing,
- hammering,
- handcrafting,
- manufacturing,
- molding,
- producing,
- shaping
- beginning,
- coining,
- creating,
- generating,
- inaugurating,
- initiating,
- innovating,
- inventing,
- originating
- reassembling,
- rebuilding,
- reconstructing,
- redeveloping,
- reedifying
- [British],
- retrofitting
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“Building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/building. Accessed 2 Jul. 2020.
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The first known use of building was in the 13th century
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