What is "erect" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does erect mean in English? Meaning of erect definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "erect" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "erect": construct, build, or erect

Verb

  • Meaning: construct, build, or erect
  • Example: Raise a barn
  • Synonyms: erect put up raise rear set up
  • Hypernyms: build construct make
  • Antonyms: dismantle level pull down rase raze take down tear down
  • Meaning of "erect": upright in position or posture

    Adjective

  • Meaning: upright in position or posture
  • Example: an erect stature erect flower stalks for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression a column still vertical amid the ruins he sat bolt upright
  • Synonyms: erect upright vertical
  • Antonyms: unerect
  • Similar: erectile fastigiate orthostatic passant rampant rearing semi-climbing semi-erect semi-upright stand-up standing statant straight unbent unbowed
  • Meaning of "erect": cause to rise up

    Verb

  • Meaning: cause to rise up
  • Synonyms: erect rear
  • Hyponyms: cock up pitch prick prick up set up
  • Hypernyms: bring up elevate get up lift raise
  • Meaning of "erect": of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
  • Synonyms: erect tumid
  • Similar: hard
  • Adjective: Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. Gibbon Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.Gibbon Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.(obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. Keble But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?Keble But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?(obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted. Alexander Pope His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.Alexander Pope His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.Watchful; alert. Hooker vigilant and erect attention of mindHooker vigilant and erect attention of mind(heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
  • Synonyms:

    standing, firm, raised, vertical, elevated, upright, perpendicular, rigid, stiff, upstanding, cocked, arrect, erectile, organize, put up, raise, set up, create, construct, initiate, hoist, stand, assemble, found, mount, fashion, frame, elevate, shape, pitch, compose, make, upraise, forge, manufacture, plant, form, effect, produce, heighten, rear, join, institute, fabricate, lift, cock, bring about, make up, put together, throw up, uprear, prefabricate, cobble up, fit together, fudge together, knock together, run up, stand up, throw together,

    Antonyms:

    lowered, prone, prostrate, destroy, ruin, demolish, raze, decrease, ignore, demote, distress, prevent, topple, drop, lower, conclude, finish, neglect, end, fall, depress, upset, halt, stop, fail, break,

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    erect in English: erect
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