Definition of erect

• a. - Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
• a. - Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
• a. - Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
• a. - Watchful; alert.
• a. - Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
• a. - Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
• v. t. - To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
• v. t. - To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
• v. t. - To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
• v. i. - To rise upright.