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Defenition of the word erect

    • Defenition of the word erect

      • Being in a vertical, upright position.
      • To make by combining materials and parts.
      • To place in vertical or quasi-vertical position, stable by the sole combined effect of gravity and support(s) reaction.
      • (physiology) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
      • upright in position or posture; "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"
      • construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
      • cause to rise up
      • of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
      • construct, build, or erect
      • upright in position or posture

    Synonyms for the word erect

      • assemble
      • build
      • construct
      • create
      • establish
      • found
      • institute
      • put up
      • raise
      • rear
      • rigid
      • set up
      • stiff
      • straight
      • tumid
      • upright
      • vertical

    Similar words in the erect

      • erect
      • erected
      • erectile
      • erecting
      • erection
      • erection's
      • erections
      • erectly
      • erectness
      • erectness's
      • erects
      • fastigiate
      • hard
      • orthostatic
      • passant
      • passant(ip)
      • rampant
      • rampant(ip)
      • rearing
      • stand-up
      • standing
      • standing(a)
      • statant
      • statant(ip)
      • straight
      • straight-backed
      • unbent
      • unbowed
      • upright

    Hyponyms for the word erect

      • cock up
      • pitch
      • prick
      • prick up
      • set up

    Hypernyms for the word erect

      • bring up
      • build
      • construct
      • elevate
      • get up
      • lift
      • make
      • raise

    Antonyms for the word erect

      • dismantle
      • level
      • pull down
      • rase
      • raze
      • take down
      • tear down
      • unerect

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