erect
1. construct, build, or erect (Freq. 17)
- Raise a barn
• Syn:
raise, rear, set up, put up
• Ant:
level (for: raise)
• Derivationally related forms:
erection, erecting
• Topics:
construction, building
• Hypernyms:
construct, build, make
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. cause to rise up
• Syn:
rear
• Derivationally related forms:
erection
• Hypernyms:
raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
• Hyponyms:
pitch, set up, prick up, prick, cock up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. upright in position or posture (Freq. 10)
- 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
• Syn:
vertical, upright
• Ant:
unerect
• Similar to:
erectile, fastigiate, orthostatic, passant, rampant,
rearing, semi-climbing, semi-erect, semi-upright, standing, stand-up,
statant, straight, unbent, unbowed
• Derivationally related forms:
uprightness (for: upright), vertical (for: vertical), verticalness (for: vertical), erectness
• Attrubites:
position, posture, attitude
2. of sexual organs;
stiff and rigid
• Syn:
tumid
• Similar to:
hard
• Derivationally related forms:
tumidness (for: tumid), tumidity (for: tumid)
• Topics:
physiology
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