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