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erect, erect, eruct
erect (i REKT) (adjective)
Concerning something or someone being in a vertical, upright position: The judge's posture was strong and erect.
erect (i REKT) (verb)
1. To construct by assembling: The farmers all got together to erect the new barn after the fire.
2. To raise to a rigid or vertical condition: The gardener was careful to erect the flowers in an upright position so they would bloom better.
eruct (i RUKT) (verb)
To belch: His mother always reminded him it was not polite to eruct or burp loudly in public.

The professor always appeared so erect and proper that it was hard to imagine that he would ever eruct in public.

eruct, eructs; eructed, eructing (verb forms)
1. To belch forth; such as, to eject gas from the stomach: "He was eructing stomach gasses through his mouth."
2. To emit or to issue violently, as matter from a volcano.
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