Crossword-Solution: ERECT 5 letters, 285 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Erect	a.	Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
Erect	a.	Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
Erect	a.	Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
Erect	a.	Watchful; alert.
Erect	a.	Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
Erect	a.	Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Erect	v. t.	To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
Erect	v. t.	To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
Erect	v. t.	To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
Erect	v. t.	To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
Erect	v. t.	To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
Erect	v. t.	To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Erect	v. i.	To rise upright.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ERECT	anagram	CERET, CERTE, CRETE, CTREE, RECTE, TERCE, TRECE

We have 285 clues for the answer “ERECT”

Clue	Answers
"Sweeney ___": T. S. Eliot	1 answer
As tall as one can be, so to speak	1 answer
As tall as one can get	1 answer
Assemble, as a Lego tower	1 answer
At attention, say	1 answer
At full mast, so to speak	1 answer
Build a building	1 answer
Build an edifice	1 answer
Build from the ground up	1 answer
Build, as a big phallic tower	1 answer
Build, as a building	1 answer
Build, as a house	1 answer
Build, as a monument	1 answer
Build, as a skyscraper	1 answer
Build, like a monument	1 answer
Build, like a skyscraper	1 answer
Cause to arise.	1 answer
Construct on a lot	1 answer
Construct or build	1 answer
Construct, as a building	1 answer
Construct, as a skyscraper	1 answer
Construct, like a building	1 answer
Correct way to stand	1 answer
Demonstrating good posture	1 answer
Describing a West Pointer's carriage.	1 answer
Descriptor for some plant stems	1 answer
Displaying good posture	1 answer
Do construction work.	1 answer
Fucking ready?	1 answer
Fully at attention	1 answer
Fully upright	1 answer
Good way to stand	1 answer
Happy to see someone, perhaps	1 answer
Hardly slouching	1 answer
Have fun with Lego blocks	1 answer
Having good posture	1 answer
Having perfect posture	1 answer
How British guards stand	1 answer
How Cro-Magnon man walked	1 answer
How Cro-Magnons stood	1 answer
How Neanderthals stood	1 answer
How we walk	1 answer
In a vertical, upright position	1 answer
Island with an airport named for author Nikos Kazantzakis	1 answer
Kind of bearing.	1 answer
Like Cro-Magnon man	1 answer
Like French bulldogs' ears	1 answer
Like Homo habilis	1 answer
Like Java man	1 answer
Like a Chihuahua's ears	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AERA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with ERECT (5)

Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

All the travelling winds went with them, O’er the meadows, through the forest; All the stars of night looked at them, Watched with sleepless eyes their slumber; From his ambush in the oak-tree Peeped the squirrel, Adjidaumo, Watched with eager eyes the lovers; And the rabbit, the Wabasso, Scampered from the path before them, Peering, peeping from his burrow, Sat erect upon his haunches, Watched with curious eyes the lovers.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Son, thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, Heir of all my might, Neerly it now concernes us to be sure Of our Omnipotence, and with what Arms We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of Deitie or Empire, such a foe Is rising, who intends to erect his Throne Equal to ours, throughout the spacious North; Nor so content, hath in his thought to trie In battel, what our Power is, or our right.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his neck.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The dealers in the bodies and souls of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with ERECT (3)

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

C. S. Lewis Prince Caspian

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once mor…

Robert G. Ingersoll The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV

My Creed I do not choose to be a common man, It is my right to be uncommon … if I can, I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen. Humbled and dulled by having the State look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; To dream and to build. To fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole; I prefer the challenges of life To the guaranteed existence; The thrill of fulfillment To the stale calm of Utopia. I will not trade freedom for…

Dean Alfange

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 904 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).