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CORRECT

Definition:

1. [verb] make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
   Synonyms: rectify, right
   
   
2. [verb] make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
   Synonyms: right, compensate, redress
   
   
3. [verb] censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
   Synonyms: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten
   
   
4. [verb] adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
   Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even out, even off, even up
   
   
5. [verb] punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
   Synonyms: discipline, sort out
   
   
6. [verb] go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
   Synonyms: decline, slump
   
   
7. [verb] alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
   Synonyms: adjust, set
   
   
8. [verb] treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
   
   
9. [adjective] free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"
   Synonyms: right
   
   
10. [adjective] socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"
    Synonyms: right
    
    
11. [adjective] in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
    Synonyms: right
    
    
12. [adjective] correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
    Synonyms: right
    
    

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Related Words:

• rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend
• debug
• over-correct, overcompensate
• expiate, aby, abye, atone
• flame
• carry
• cover, compensate, overcompensate
• proportion
• modulate
• temper
• tune, tune up
• calibrate, graduate, fine-tune
• tune, tune up
• time
• trim
• zero, zero in
• zero
• readjust, reset
• attune
• time
• set
• regulate, modulate
• focus, focalize, focalise, sharpen
• synchronize, synchronise, sync
• pressurize, pressurise
• depressurize, depressurise, decompress
• match, fit
• plumb
• align, ordinate, coordinate
• harmonize, harmonise, reconcile
• linearize, linearise
• justify
• citify

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