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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?
EMTSBA III - The Writing Reflex:
A guilty conscience will get you reacting to justify your action, but a remorseful conscience will get you acting to rectify your reaction.
I don’t think anybody should have high expectations that this is going to yield a breakthrough. The parties have shown themselves to be utterly indifferent to their country and their people, and that is a hard thing to rectify.
We demand, via all global diplomatic channels, that President Obama rectify and repeal the immoral decree declaring Venezuela a threat to the United States.
Before the barrage of attacks on me occurred, I was beating Trump head-to-head, Hillary head-to-head and there are those who didn't like that very much. And the people are the only ones who can rectify the situation.
Superintendent Steven Unowsky:
A hot lunch should never be taken from a child, one of the things that we can do as adults is model failure with grace. We absolutely failed in this situation and our team is working to try and rectify the mistakes that we've made.
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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