adjective. Being in a vertical, upright position.

adjective. Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition.

transitive verb. To construct by assembling.

transitive verb. To raise to a rigid or upright condition.

transitive verb. To fix in an upright position.

transitive verb. To set up; establish.

transitive verb. To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base.

Having an upright posture; standing; directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Specifically— In heraldry, set vertically in some unusual way: thus, a boar's head charged with the muzzle or snout uppermost, pointing to the top of the field, is said to be erect.

In botany, vertical throughout; not spreading or declined; upright: as, an erect stem; an erect leaf or ovule.

In entomology, upright: applied to hairs, spines, etc., when they are nearly but not quite at right angles to the surface or margin on which they are situated. In this sense distinguished from perpendicular or vertical.

Hence Upright and firm; bold.

Intent; alert.

To raise and set in an upright or perpendicular position; set up; raise up: as, to erect a telegraph-pole or a flagstaff.

To raise, as a building; build; construct: as, to erect a house or a temple; to erect a fort.

To set up or establish; found; form; frame: as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory.

To raise from a lower level or condition to a higher; elevate; exalt; lift up.

To animate; encourage.

To advance or set forth; propound.

To draw, as a figure, upon a base; construct, as a figure: as, to erect a horoscope; to erect a circle on a given line as a semidiameter; to erect a perpendicular to a line from a given point in the line.

2 and Construct, build, institute, establish, plant.

1 and Elevate. See raise.

To take an upright position; rise.

adjective. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone.

adjective. Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

adjective. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

adjective. Watchful; alert.

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

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

intransitive verb. To rise upright.

transitive verb. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise

transitive verb. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; ; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

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

transitive verb. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

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

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

transitive verb. a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.

adjective. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

adjective. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.

verb. To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

verb. To cause to stand up or out.

verb. cause to rise up

adjective. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

verb. construct, build, or erect

adjective. upright in position or posture

"The former word also means _he will establish_, or _plant in an erect position_ -- from the verb [Hebrew] _Kūn, he stood erect_."

drooping  flaccid  stooping  

bristle  build  construct  create  erect decliner  

erectile  fastigiate  hard  orthostatic  passant  

erectile  erection  

erection  semierect  

build  construct  make  

Brecht  Hecht  Select  affect  bedecked  

comely  erectile  head-down  high-stepping  leonine  

Christian  aggrandize  alert  animate  assemble  

erected  erecting  erects