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How to pronounce “erect”
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Pronunciation guide for erect
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of erect with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Inside Story of Notre-Dame’s Incredible Reconstruction
The spire was erect again,
- Definition summary
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce erect
The Inside Story of Notre-Dame’s Incredible Reconstruction
The spire was erect again,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “erect”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.
- (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- Watchful; alert.
- (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
- To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
- (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
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