erecting
Sayi-REK-ting/ɪˈɹɛktɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of erect.
The crew is erecting scaffolding along the building's north face.
Erecting the monument took the city nearly three years.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. With be it forms the progressive (are erecting a building). On its own it acts as a noun of action that can still take a direct object (erecting the monument took years). Because erect is mostly transitive, erecting nearly always has something being put up or set upright. The rare exception is the intransitive use for a device spinning up and aligning to vertical.
erecting is a form of erect
erect, verb: To put something up by fitting its materials or parts together. Full entry
- Spelling
- erect → erecting: add -ing
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