Definitions for erection

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erection e·rec·tion

Spelling: [ih-rek-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪˈrɛk ʃən/

Erection is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in erection (ceeinort).

Definitions for erection

noun

1. the act of erecting.
2. the state of being erected.
3. something erected, as a building or other structure.
4. Physiology. a distended and rigid state of an organ or part containing erectile tissue, especially of the penis or the clitoris.

Origin of erection

First recorded in 1495-1505, erection is from the Late Latin word ērēctiōn- (stem of ērēctiō). See erect, -ion

Examples for erection

So I rubbed his pants until he had an erection and then he came.

On the erection of Cuyahoga county, he was its first auditor.

Then, she says she observed Cosby “sitting in a love seat near Foster and she noticed that he had an erection.”

With the erection of the wall and permanent military checkpoints in 2003, this number decreased even more.

Men get an erection, they touch themselves, and it feels good.

And then we were occupied with the erection of the shanty, as already described.

Plans were out for the erection of flats in Magnolia Road also.

The date of its erection was about the middle of the sixteenth century.

Its erection was an attempt to steal absolution for the sins of its citizens.

Liberal sex propaganda or just something that sort of looked like an erection?