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erect

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1. erect - Adjective

2. erect - Verb

3. erect - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.

Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.

To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.

To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

To rise upright.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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he sat bolt upright Source: Internet

Raise a barn Source: Internet

an erect stature Source: Internet

erect flower stalks Source: Internet

for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression Source: Internet

a column still vertical amid the ruins Source: Internet

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