Thesaurus / erect
FEEDBACKsynonyms for erect
synonyms for erect
- organize
- put up
- raise
- set up
- create
- construct
- initiate
- hoist
- stand
- assemble
- found
- mount
- fashion
- frame
- elevate
- shape
- pitch
- compose
- make
- upraise
- forge
- manufacture
- plant
- form
- effect
- produce
- heighten
- rear
- join
- institute
- fabricate
- lift
- cock
- bring about
- make up
- put together
- throw up
- uprear
- prefabricate
- cobble up
- fit together
- fudge together
- knock together
- run up
- stand up
- throw together
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- break
- fail
- stop
- halt
- upset
- depress
- fall
- end
- neglect
- finish
- conclude
- lower
- drop
- topple
- prevent
- distress
- demote
- ignore
- decrease
- raze
- demolish
- ruin
- destroy
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Some have become radicalized by the president’s behavior, meeting fire with fire — from erecting guillotines to accosting Senators to defending violent looters as collecting what society owes them.
AMERICAN ANGER: TOO HOT TO HANDLE?NICK FOURIEZOSSEPTEMBER 27, 2020OZYThe government said the legislation aims to stop the EU erecting trade barriers between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland if no agreement can be reached on future arrangements for the region.
BIDEN WARNS U.K. THAT PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND MUST NOT BECOME A “CASUALTY” OF BREXITKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 17, 2020FORTUNEIt would require the region to erect multiple new electric transmission lines through San Diego Gas and Electric territory to power the pumps that get the water where it would need to go.
THE WATER AUTHORITY IS RESURRECTING ITS PIPE DREAM – AGAINMACKENZIE ELMERSEPTEMBER 1, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOLike one of Jim Henson’s darker creations, this was a goblin bird with mottled brown feathers puffed out, back hunched, and ear tufts erect and menacing.
THE QUEST TO SNARE—AND SAVE—THE WORLD’S LARGEST OWLJONATHAN SLAGHTAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEIt was where people lived and feasted while they erected Stonehenge.
UNDERGROUND MEGA-MONUMENT FOUND NEAR STONEHENGEAVERY ELIZABETH HURTAUGUST 11, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSHe had seen through a powerful naval glass some figures standing erect and silhouetted against the sky on the parapet.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONAnd with another bow the man from Paris drew himself erect, turned on his heel, and went jingling and creaking from the room.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIHalf-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKI intend to sail for that place in about a month or six weeks, but shall appoint agents in England to erect these engines.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKAs she spoke, a handsome man of middle age and erect carriage entered the room.
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WORDS RELATED TO ERECT
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- put up
- raised
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- shaped
- threw together
- threw up
- trumped up
- upreared
- whipped up
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