0 past simple and past participle of erect --
1 to build a building, wall, or other structure: --
The soldiers had erected barricades to protect themselves.
2 to raise something to a vertical position: --
They erected a marquee to accommodate 500 wedding guests.
Of course, the value of this land turned not so much on its quality as the buildings erected upon it.
He was able to do so because of a fence that had been erected around the whole site.
They were erected between 9.14.9.9.14 and 9.18.15.0.0 by unknown rulers.
The town erected a statue of him and named a street and their new basketball gym after him.
Cities and towns erected for tifications, suggesting competition over land and other resources.
In several chapters there is a penetrating conceptual analysis of the matter at hand, on which a superstructure of code is erected.
All bats were collected using mist nets erected at ground level.
In 1950, a university was erected on the incomplete palace site.
