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▸ adjective: (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
▸ adjective: (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
▸ adjective: Watchful; alert.
▸ adjective: (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
▸ verb: (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
▸ verb: To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
▸ verb: (intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
▸ verb: (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
▸ verb: (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
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