0 to build a building, wall, or other structure:
The soldiers had erected barricades to protect themselves.
1 to raise something to a vertical position:
They erected a marquee to accommodate 500 wedding guests.
5 in a straight vertical position, or standing up or out from a surface or body:
erect posture
No trace of them remains today, although a cairn marking the location has been erected.
This is thought to contain the life force of the deceased and is erected on the grave.
The ring, once completed, would have been able to take any hoop stresses that arose from the next course to be erected.
Given a large budget, ministers and civil servants can erect many programmes and cater to (or build) a broad political constituency.
In bad weather, convicts had to spend the night in nomad tents erected by the locals, in caravansaries, or in empty huts.
Such performers would have had trouble seeing, breathing, and holding their heads erect.
Starting slowly in the 1860s, more pastoralists erected wire fences and within a decade the number was growing rapidly (figure 1).
Male bears fight by striking with their fore paws while standing erect on their hind legs.
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