Word Meaning

erect definition and meaning

a. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
a. Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
a. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
a. Watchful; alert.
a. Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
a. Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
v. t. 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.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
v. t. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
v. t. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
v. t. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
v. i. To rise upright.

Crossword clues for erect

- Build
- Build straight up
- Construct
- Construct Crete in a new way
- Elect to change sides and become straight
- on two feet
- Put Up
- Put up in village rectory
- Put up or build
- Ramrod-straight
- Standing
- Straight back from last ceremony
- Upright
- Vertical