Antonyms for rectify
ˈrɛk təˌfaɪrec·ti·fy

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1. 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.

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

   Synonyms:
   advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, reform, repair

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1. rectify

   Antonyms:
   pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort

   Synonyms:
   straighten, correct, a need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate, rearrange, remodel

Matched Categories

1. • Convert
   • Correct
   • Determine
   • Purify

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1. rectifyverb

   math: determine the length of

   "rectify a curve"

   Synonyms:
   repair, reform, correct, regenerate, reclaim, refine, remedy, amend, remediate, right

2. refine, 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, remediate

3. reform, 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 light

4. rectify, 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, indemnify

5. correct, 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, set

6. rectifyverb

   convert into direct current

   "rectify alternating current"

   Synonyms:
   repair, reform, correct, regenerate, reclaim, refine, remedy, amend, remediate, right

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1. rectifyverb

   Synonyms:
   correct, amend

How to use rectify in a sentence?

1. Ann Burlingame:

   I just feel like this woman was denied access to a library and a book, i just wanted the opportunity to rectify that, not just for her but for us as the library system.

2. Top Glove:

   We are mindful there is much more to be done to uplift the standard of our employee welfare and promise to rectify shortcomings immediately.

3. Katie Britt:

   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.

4. William Forsyth:

   At some point in time, just admit you screwed up, and take whatever steps you need to take to rectify it. Apologize for what happened, ensure to people that it won't happen again.

5. Debra Milke:

   I always believed this day would come, i just didn't think it would have to take 25 years, 3 months and 14 days to rectify such a blatant miscarriage of justice.

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