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Yes, erect is playable

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"Erect" Definition

verb

To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts .
To fix in an upright position.
To cause to stand up or stand out.
To direct upward.
To change (an image) from an inverted to a normal position.

adjective

Archaic Wide-awake; alert.
Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition.
Being in a vertical, upright position: an erect lily stalk; an erect posture.
Vertical in position.
Not spread out or decumbent .

verb-transitive

Mathematics To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base.
To construct by assembling: erect a skyscraper.
To fix in an upright position.
To raise to a rigid or upright condition.
To set up; establish: erect a dynasty.

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