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View definitions for erected

erected

adjective as in stood on end

adjective as in built

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Exactly one month after the first straw goat was erected in Gävle, it was mysteriously burned to a crisp.

The glass-enclosed elevator that I take shows another building being erected, with a great derrick and all.

Other buildings have since been erected and then torn down or sold.

Nearby, the Hamas deputy information minister, Ehab al Hussain, sits in a memorial tent erected for those killed in the fighting.

The prohibition was erected for good reason:  to prevent the religious wars that wracked Europe in the previous century.

Close to the wagon in which our hero lay the natives had erected a temporary hut of grass, about six feet high.

A vast number are now being erected, and no other engine is erected where these are known.

I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.

The last engine I erected was about three weeks since, for a farmer that kept four horses and two drivers.

In the spring of the following year a somewhat similar engine was erected in London.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to erected, such as: boosted, elevated, hoisted, implanted, lifted, and raised.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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