Synonym: build, construct, straight, upright, vertical. Antonym: demolish, destroy, ruin. Similar words: direct, correct, rectify, directly, director, correctly, direction, in all directions. Meaning: [ɪ'rekt] 
v. 1. construct, build, or erect 2. cause to rise up. adj. 1. upright in position or posture 2. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid.
v. 1. construct, build, or erect 2. cause to rise up. adj. 1. upright in position or posture 2. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid. 
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31. The plant, growing erect, will eventually develop emergent leaves.
32. She holds her head erect, her red-gold curls like a torch burning in the grey, misty atmosphere.
33. All the posts stood erect and unblemished in a dead straight line.
34. The disk is usually scaled, the arms are very long and the arm spines are short and erect.
35. They come in various shapes: erect, for instance, or conical, or rounded or with horizontal, spreading branches.
36. Three men, including one called Andrew Cunningham, were brought to the surface to erect the fence.
37. The tent will then be held to the ground while you insert the poles and erect the tent. 5.
38. Two unarmed security guards in faded blue uniforms stand erect at the entrance to Montclair Prep in Van Nuys.
39. Powerful incumbent airlines found three ways to erect strategic entry barriers and consolidate their market power.
40. The magistrate sat there, stern and erect, as the charge was read out.
41. Even now, Jonadab held himself as erect as in his youth and stood out from the crowd.
42. She holds her head erect, with her blonde curls falling down her back.
43. Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
44. The youth was tall, erect, and had disheveled blond hair.
45. The vision of Doreen, head erect, and full of confidence as she rode beside Silas, was all too clear.
46. These stems grow erect when submersed, but grow prostrate on marshy terrain.
47. The mission: raise $ 50, 000 and erect a commemorative statue on the City Hall front lawn.
48. He is wearing his carnation again, and he could not possibly carry himself more erect.
49. This involves sitting comfortably with your back and head erect.
50. Upon the impressive foundations that Galileo had laid, Newton was able to erect a cathedral of superb grandeur.
51. They will not reveal any plans to demolish the house next door and erect a block of flats in its place.
52. Once that too has been firmly fixed, she starts to erect lines crossing the gap like spokes of a wheel.
53. The policeman with the moustache stood erect with his hands on his hips.
54. Elephants elsewhere have been known to overcome both types of barriers that the task force was planning to erect.
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55. He fainted from pain but caught hold of the iron railing of a house and remained erect.
56. Equally important, it would erect ladders to both higher education and employment, not to just one or the other.
57. When stocking a pool with fish, take care to select healthy individuals with firm, meaty bodies and erect dorsal fins.
58. Strictly speaking, we should erect a statue to a plumber in Trafalgar Square.
59. Now the barriers they had sought to erect between philosophy and science began to crumble.
60. It has a long snout, erect ears, a shiny brown coat, and a tail thick as a muff.
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