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v. cause to rise up

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

adj. upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"

tumid

adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

upright, perpendicular, unsloped

adj. in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"

cause, create, originate

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

hatch, think of, think up, concoct, dream up

v. devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

concoct, trump up

v. invent; "trump up charges"

formulate, prepare according to a formula

v. prepare according to a formula

forge, devise, formulate, invent, contrive, excogitate

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

set up, put together, piece together, assemble

v. create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

build, establish

v. build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"

manufacture, construct, fabricate

v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

marshal

v. place in proper rank; "marshal the troops"

fix, deposit, pose, posit, situate

v. put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"

schedule, make a schedule for

v. make a schedule; plan the time and place for events; "I scheduled an exam for this afternoon"

arrange, set up

v. put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

manufacture, make up, invent, fabricate, cook up

v. make up something artificial or untrue

fake, wangle, fudge, cook, manipulate, falsify, play with, misrepresent, tamper with

v. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

re-assemble, reassemble

v. assemble once again, after taking something apart

counterfeit, fake, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

sire, mother, father, beget, engender, generate, bring forth

v. make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

vertical

adj. at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"

put, position, place, set, pose, lay

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

adamantine

adj. having the hardness of a diamond

firm, solid

adj. not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"

granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony

adj. hard as granite; "a granitic fist"

set, hardened

adj. converted to solid form (as concrete)

lignified, woody

adj. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

marmoreal, marmorean

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of marble

ossified

adj. changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"

petrified

adj. converted into stone

petrous, stonelike

adj. (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness

slaty, slatey

adj. of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn"

steely

adj. resembling steel in hardness

unpadded

adj. (hard)

perpendicular, normal

adj. intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other"

plumb, true

adj. exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"

upended

adj. turned up on end

level, dismantle, take down, pull down, raze, rase, tear down

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

unerect

adj. not upright in position or posture

flat, prostrate

adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

prostrate, prone

adj. lying face downward

horizontal

adj. parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface"

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