erect

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Standing straight up; upright.

   She sat with an erect posture throughout the interview.

2. 2
   verb

   To build a structure or put it up by fitting parts together.

   The workers erected a fence around the construction site.

From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).

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