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What does erect mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word erect? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  2. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
  3. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  4. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  5. Watchful; alert.
  6. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
  2. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
  3. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
  4. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  5. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  6. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  7. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
  8. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
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