Synonyms for erect
ɪˈrɛkterect

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1. erect

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

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

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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

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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

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1. erectadjective

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

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

2. erectverb

   Synonyms:
   build, raise

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1. List of paraphrases for "erect":

   build, construct

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How to use erect in a sentence?

1. Eleanor Holmes Norton:

   What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the Negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.

2. Robert G. Ingersoll:

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

3. Jim Ambrose:

   The guiding principle was pair-bonding with a man and to be even more specific, to make sure that I possessed a proper vessel for an erect penis, the end goal wasn't that I would be a sexually satisfied woman, or a person who was curious about other forms of sexuality. ... Jim Ambrose personal sexual pleasure wasn't taken into account.

4. Laura Vitarelli:

   He got up with us and followed us to the door and said,' Are you sure you want to leave ?' And he pulled out his penis and it was fully erect, it was very uncomfortable for the both of us, and we knew we had to get out of there so we left as fast as we could.

5. Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

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