erected [ih-rekt] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
erect [ih-rekt]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: build; establish
Synonyms: assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise, uprear
Antonyms: raze, topple
Main Entry: erected
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: built
Synonyms: completed, constructed, raised
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Main Entry: erect
Part of Speech: adjective, verb
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Adjectives:
erect, straight, bolt upright, erigible, freestanding, hunched over, ithyphallic, normal, perpendicular, plumpendicular, pritchkemp, rampant, rectangular, sejant, standing up, statant, upright, vertical
Example Sentences
  • The team erected steel scaffolds so that no one would step on the burials.
  • Where there was no building, cardboard booths were erected under trees.
  • From there, the inner-chamber can be erected from the inside.
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Main Entry: assemble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put together
Synonyms: compile, connect, construct, contrive, erect, fabricate, fashion, fit, form, join, make, manufacture, model, mold, piece together, produce, set up, shape, unite, weld
Antonyms: divide, separate, take apart
Main Entry: build
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: construct structure
Synonyms: assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, superstruct, synthesize, throw together, throw up
Notes: billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct
Antonyms: demolish, destroy, dismantle, knock down, raze, ruin, take down
Main Entry: cock
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: aim up toward
Synonyms: erect, hump, perk up, pile, prick, raise, stack, stand erect, stand up, stick up
Main Entry: construct
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: assemble, build
Synonyms: build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up
Antonyms: annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin
Main Entry: create
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: develop in mind or physically
Synonyms: actualize, author, beget, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to pass, build, cause to be, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, give birth to, give life to, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start
Antonyms: destroy, ruin
Main Entry: crown
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reward, dignify
Synonyms: adorn, arm, authorize, commission, coronate, delegate, determine, dower, enable, endow, endue, ennoble, enthrone, erect, establish, exalt, festoon, fix, heighten, honor, inaugurate, induct, install, invest, raise, sanction, set up, settle, stabilize, strengthen
Antonyms: dishonor, disregard, fine, punish
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