erect

erect is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
2. adjective. Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
3. adjective. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
4. adjective. Watchful; alert.
5. adjective. Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
6. adjective. Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
7. transitive verb. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
8. transitive verb. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
9. transitive verb. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
10. transitive verb. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
11. transitive verb. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
12. transitive verb. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
13. intransitive verb. To rise upright.
14. verb. construct, build, or erect

    "Raise a barn"

    Synonyms: raise, rear

15. verb. cause to rise up

    Synonyms: rear

16. adjective. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

    Synonyms: tumid

17. adjective. upright in position or posture

    "an erect stature"

    "erect flower stalks"

    Synonyms: upright, vertical

Synonyms

raise, rear, tumid, upright, vertical

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in erect:

crete, terce

Common word forms

erects, erected, erecter, erectly, erecting, erectable, erectness

Words from these letters

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