erect

  1. Adjective.  Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  2. Adjective.  Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.

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