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Synonyms for rectify
ˈrɛk təˌfaɪrec·ti·fy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
rectify
To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.
Synonyms:
advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, reform, repairAntonyms:
aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate
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Princeton's WordNet
rectifyverb
math: determine the length of
"rectify a curve"
Synonyms:
repair, reform, correct, regenerate, reclaim, refine, remedy, amend, remediate, rightrefine, rectifyverb
reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
"refine sugar"
Synonyms:
elaborate, refine, reclaim, right, regenerate, polish, down, rarify, fine-tune, correct, reform, amend, remedy, complicate, repair, remediatereform, reclaim, regenerate, rectifyverb
bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
"The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
Synonyms:
refine, recover, reclaim, right, repair, tame, renew, domesticize, regenerate, restore, correct, domesticise, domesticate, reform, revitalize, amend, straighten out, repossess, remedy, rejuvenate, remediate, see the lightrectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
Synonyms:
right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, amend, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, touch on, recreate, remedy, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnifycorrect, rectify, rightverb
make right or correct
"Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
Synonyms:
refine, reclaim, regenerate, chasten, counterbalance, adjust, redress, even out, objurgate, discipline, castigate, correct, decline, right, reform, even up, amend, chastise, compensate, sort out, even off, remedy, repair, make up, remediate, slump, setrectifyverb
convert into direct current
"rectify alternating current"
Synonyms:
repair, reform, correct, regenerate, reclaim, refine, remedy, amend, remediate, right
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "rectify":
correct, remedy, redress, refinish, address, rectification, honing, regularize, correcting, corrective, hone, fix
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#189 | set | |
#234 | right | |
#249 | address | |
#311 | down | |
#495 | better | |
#1326 | improve | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1837 | advance | |
#1847 | correct | |
#1864 | resort | |
#2034 | doctor | |
#2464 | fix | |
#3345 | reform | |
#4835 | polish | |
#5397 | refine | |
#5491 | discipline | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5701 | restore | |
#6356 | recover | |
#6635 | adjust | |
#7436 | amend | |
#8193 | remedy | |
#8383 | renew | |
#11761 | regulate | |
#13066 | elaborate | |
#13548 | corrective | |
#13778 | relieve | |
#15260 | compensate | |
#18229 | correcting | |
#18285 | mitigate | |
#20190 | quicken | |
#22636 | reclaim | |
#22879 | tame | |
#23117 | revive | |
#23960 | cleanse | |
#24417 | indemnify | |
#26041 | recreate | |
#26478 | redress | |
#26982 | animate | |
#28042 | remodel | |
#28323 | slump | |
#28390 | hone | |
#31890 | rectify | |
#32067 | straighten | |
#32860 | regenerate | |
#33156 | mend | |
#34586 | complicate | |
#36089 | renovate | |
#36357 | purify | |
#37737 | revitalize | |
#38815 | rearrange | |
#46816 | rectification | |
#47016 | bushel | |
#48305 | rejuvenate | |
#51994 | honing | |
#60127 | ameliorate | |
#61208 | recompense | |
#67974 | counterbalance | |
#68871 | refinish | |
#77777 | remediate | |
#105258 | chastise | |
#115030 | repossess | |
#153865 | emend | |
#171345 | regularize | |
#182964 | domesticate | |
#184683 | castigate | |
#246567 | chasten | |
#247030 | reanimate |
How to use rectify in a sentence?
When it comes to inflation, you know, talking to people across our state, whether it's retirees or hard-working families, people are hurting, people can't make ends meet. You look at what we need to do to rectify that. First, we need to rein in spending. We have got to stop the ridiculous, consistent overspending that has put us in this position to start with.
Pray for the world that all transgressors rectify themselves, not to tolerate them to do more evil.
So I share your concerns about some of these decisions. I want to rectify those going forward, i also want to highlight for you that some of the criticism is unfounded and I think is exaggerated and I think it feeds this division that we've seen around very important issues affecting the environment.
We love it just as much as you do, after the family was railroaded out of town, they lived in Los Angeles destitute and so therefore, these people who did this to my family need to rectify it by any means, including apologize.
If my athlete affiliations can help rectify the situation – why wouldn’t I try?
Translations for rectify
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- تصحيحArabic
- opravitCzech
- retteDanish
- korrigierenGerman
- ĝustigiEsperanto
- rectificarSpanish
- اصلاح کردنPersian
- korjata, tasasuunnata, puhdistaa, tislata, oikaistaFinnish
- rectifierFrench
- ceartaighIrish
- सुधारनेHindi
- helyesbíteniHungarian
- memperbaikiIndonesian
- rettificareItalian
- לְתַקֵןHebrew
- 正すJapanese
- corrigereLatin
- amelioreren, rectificeren, herzien, rechtzetten, amenderen, corrigerenDutch
- rette oppNorwegian
- poprawić, poprawiaćPolish
- retificarPortuguese
- corecta, rectificaRomanian
- исправить, исправлятьRussian
- korrigera, likriktaSwedish
- சரிகட்டTamil
- düzeltmekTurkish
- اصلاحUrdu
- khắc phụcVietnamese
- 纠正Chinese
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