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.
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.
In bad weather, convicts had to spend the night in nomad tents erected by the locals, in caravansaries, or in empty huts.
Starting slowly in the 1860s, more pastoralists erected wire fences and within a decade the number was growing rapidly (figure 1).
It should allow workmen to live on the ground floors of houses whilst they erected the upper floors.
A handful of weatherboard houses had been erected here by 1851.
The two were simply not compatible within the developmental paradigm erected by the colonial authorities and inherited by the new regime.
In 1950, a university was erected on the incomplete palace site.
