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Synonyms for erect
ɪˈrɛkterect

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. erect

    Synonyms:
    elevate, raise, establish, plant, uplift, construct, build, found, institute, set up

    Antonyms:
    lower, supplant, subvert, der press, remove, destroy, demolish

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. erect, vertical, uprightadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    just, vertical, upright, good, perpendicular, tumid, unsloped

    Antonyms:
    prostrate, cernuous, round-backed, supine, drooping, soft, crooked, nodding, decumbent, recumbent, resupine, round-shouldered, bended, hunched, stooping, accumbent, flat, procumbent, stooped, semi-prostrate, pendulous, couchant(ip), weeping, prone, unerect, sleeping, bent, dormant(ip)

  2. tumid, erectverb

    of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

    Synonyms:
    large, vertical, upright, tumescent, declamatory, intumescent, orotund, tumid, turgid, bombastic, puffy

    Antonyms:
    accumbent, prostrate, flat, nodding, round-shouldered, bended, stooping, sleeping, semi-prostrate, procumbent, crooked, round-backed, unerect, pendulous, soft, recumbent, drooping, stooped, supine, prone, bent, weeping, dormant(ip), hunched, decumbent, cernuous, couchant(ip), resupine

  3. raise, erect, rear, set up, put upverb

    construct, build, or erect

    "Raise a barn"

    Synonyms:
    elevate, resurrect, rise up, endure, provoke, launch, fire, leaven, call forth, entrap, put, stand, kick upstairs, lift, effect, frame, upgrade, put up, fix, digest, arrange, stomach, install, set up, provide, bring up, raise, recruit, enkindle, ready, levy, found, conjure, offer, establish, upraise, rise, contribute, effectuate, stick out, tolerate, conjure up, set, brook, suffer, enhance, gear up, domiciliate, prepare, put together, can, tack, post, house, prove, put forward, invoke, pitch, evoke, assemble, piece, heighten, rear, put in, rig, instal, stir, order, elicit, ensnare, bear, nurture, parent, produce, abide, nominate, kindle, arouse, grow, tin, promote, support, advance, farm, get up, lay out, call down, tack together

    Antonyms:
    couchant(ip), cernuous, decumbent, nodding, dormant(ip), bended, weeping, drooping, semi-prostrate, round-shouldered, accumbent, round-backed, prone, hunched, stooped, procumbent, soft, resupine, pendulous, prostrate, flat, stooping, crooked, unerect, recumbent, supine, bent, sleeping

  4. rear, erectverb

    cause to rise up

    Synonyms:
    bring up, nurture, rear, rise, raise, lift, set up, parent, rise up, put up

    Antonyms:
    prostrate, round-shouldered, nodding, couchant(ip), crooked, accumbent, soft, dormant(ip), pendulous, procumbent, resupine, flat, unerect, stooped, prone, recumbent, decumbent, drooping, supine, bended, bent, cernuous, sleeping, stooping, hunched, weeping, semi-prostrate, round-backed

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. erectverb

    Synonyms:
    set up, place upright, set upright

  2. erectverb

    Synonyms:
    raise, build, construct

  3. erectverb

    Synonyms:
    exalt, elevate, magnify

  4. erectverb

    Synonyms:
    institute, found, form, plant, establish

  5. erectverb

    Synonyms:
    [Poetical.] cheer, animate, inspirit, enliven, encourage

  6. erectadjective

    Synonyms:
    upright, not prone

  7. erectadjective

    Synonyms:
    elevated, turned upward

  8. erectadjective

    Synonyms:
    bold, undaunted, undismayed, unterrified, firm, unshaken

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. erectadjective

    Synonyms:
    upright, vertical, raised, undaunted, bold, undismayed

    Antonyms:
    horizontal, recumbent, prone, inverted, oblique, cringing

  2. erectverb

    Synonyms:
    build, raise

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "erect":

    build, construct

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How to use erect in a sentence?

  1. Shane Leslie:

    The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

  2. Robert G. Ingersoll:

    He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  3. George Washington Carver:

    I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson.

  4. Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

    We will also erect a fence at certain locations on the Croatian border.

  5. Prime Minister Boiko Borisov:

    The main threat is coming from the Greek border, it is very long and unprotected, and our concern is that the Greek government did not take measures in recent months. We are ready to erect a barrier if necessary.


Translations for erect

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  • изправям, прав, издигам, вертикален, изправенBulgarian
  • খাড়াBengali
  • erecteCatalan, Valencian
  • vztyčitCzech
  • fondiEsperanto
  • pystyasennossa, rakentaa, pystyttää, pystyFinnish
  • togScottish Gaelic
  • tegakIndonesian
  • dritto, duro, erettoItalian
  • قیتKurdish
  • takotako, whaihanga, whakatū, toraMāori
  • исправен, простум, подига, крева, подигнатMacedonian
  • erigere, reiseNorwegian
  • wznieśćPolish
  • устанавливать, прямой, торчащий, выпрямлять, вертикальный, ощетинившийся, возводить, строить, вертикально поднятый, сооружать, распрямлятьRussian

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