The Meaning of erect

• (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.

Synonyms

raise , rear , set up , put up , rear , vertical , upright , tumid

Antonyms

level , unerect

Rhymes

affect , aftereffect , albrecht , architect , aspect , becht , bedecked , brecht , checked , circumspect , collect , confect , connect , correct , decked , defect , deflect , deject , deregt , detect , dialect , direct , disaffect , disconnect , disinfect , disrespect , dissect , effect , eject , elect , expect , fecht , hecht , henpecked , incorrect , indirect , infect , inject , insect , inspect , intellect , interconnect , interject , intersect , introspect , knecht , misdirect , necked , neglect , nondirect , object , overprotect , pecht , perfect , prefect , project , protect , rechecked , recht , recollect , reconnect , redirect , reflect , reinspect , reject , respect , resurrect , retrospect , schlecht , sect , select , specht , subject , suspect , teleconnect , trekked , unchecked , wecht , whelked , wrecked