Synonyms for erect
- verb
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
build, construct, raise, establish, make, rear, put up, form, forme US, lift, institute, exalt, found, elevate, magnify, uplift, aggrandize, aggrandise UK, organize, organise UK, dignify
Adjective
1. Stiff — rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation
Definitions
- v. 1
To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
to erect a house or a fort
- adj. 1
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- adj. 2
Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.
Forms
- Past participle
- erected
e.g. erected → built, constructed, raised, established…
Example sentences
- build It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
- establish You establish the property right by paying for it.
- construct We're going to construct livestock farms in Spain.
By length
- 4 letters
- make1, hard1, form1, lift1, rear1
- 5 letters
- found1, build1, raise1, stiff1, exalt2, forme, swole, tumid
- 6 letters
- normal2, raised1, uplift2
- 7 letters
- upright2, rampant2, elevate3, magnify3, dignify3
- 8 letters
- straight1, standing2, vertical3, organize3, elevated4, organise, erectile
- 9 letters
- institute3, establish3, construct2
- 10 letters
- aggrandize3, aggrandise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exalt2 = 2 syllables).