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Meaning rectify meaning

What does rectify mean?

rectify

— verb (= remedy, repair) set straight or right remedy these deficiencies rectify the inequities in salaries repair an oversight — verb convert into direct current rectify alternating current — verb math: determine the length of rectify a curve — verb (= correct, right) make right or correct Correct the mistakes rectify the calculation — verb (= refine) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities refine sugar — verb (= reform) 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 rectify synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as rectify?

rectify English » English

correct amend remedy set right right reform adjust improve straighten out repair straighten revise remediate redress put right refine rectification reclaim mend alter retrieve regenerate raise put in order purge make right fix erect emend cleanse align whole wash unweave unblock true up true touch up tidy standardize stabilize solve settle set to rights set aright scavenge sanitize restrain rehabilitate regulate

Topics rectify topics

What do people use rectify to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Solve a problem

Conjugation rectify conjugation

How do you conjugate rectify?

rectify · verb

Examples rectify examples

How do I use rectify in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

And he'll try to rectify that.
Rectify me a certain thing.
We can very soon rectify that, sir.
Each time I try to rectify me but.
Uh, this is a request to rectify. last week's supply foul-up from Quartermasters' Corps.
Perhaps a similar adjustment will rectify your critical faculties.
I hope you managed to rectify that!
We'll do everything we can to rectify the situation in whatever way you think best.
Permit me to rectify my mistake.
Dearest, Do not be frightened, there is a huge error, which it may take some little time to rectify.
And you have to rectify that situation so that you can move along to your next embarrassing moment, which is probably scheduled immediately.
I have offended you and need to rectify my mistake.
Lord whatever I've done to piss you off if you'd just get me out of this let me know what it was, I'll rectify the situation.
Radar stations two and three are off-line. Confirm and rectify.
And you have allowed 48 hours to elapse without making any attempt to rectify the matter?
Listen. Rectify me a certain thing.
Fella you have been chosen to rectify all the great wrongs brought about by the original Cinderella story.
Each circuit exists in triplicate to rectify failure automatically without risk of hemorrhage or surgery.
Oh, I'll rectify that.
Unfortunately, you don't know how to rectify them.
As soon as I rectify one slight technicality.
However, I'm sure that you're as anxious to rectify this situation as I am.
And you could rectify that by approving my transfer.
But now that I'm on the Council, we'll rectify that.
That's all Jaffrey.. you made a mistake. Now you wish to rectify it.
I decided to rectify the sin I had committed, by raising the child of the man I had killed.
You have an opportunity to rectify the mistakes your people have made.
I'll rectify it later. Hm?
And now, one year hence, he's returning to rectify his mistake and put me back in the womb!
All right? I'll rectify the situation immediately.
In the coming months, I'll try to persuade Congress to rectify that.
Tell me how you plan to rectify the situation.
I can rectify this.
He said he'd rectify wherever possible.
Rectify?
INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us, how do you rectify that?
And For Me To Be A Better Person, I Have To Rectify That Situation.

News and current affairs

China's new Plan must rectify this shortfall immediately.
Empowering citizens by giving them money could rectify this imbalance and so improve accountability and the functioning of democracy.
Or Egypt could become paralyzed and unable to rectify its dire economic situation and restore order, without which no progress is possible.
And yet many policymakers are insisting on immediate action to rectify not only fiscal deficits, but also trade imbalances and banks' balance-sheet weaknesses.
At their June summit, Europe's leaders finally recognized the need to rectify this situation, transferring responsibility for banking supervision in the eurozone to the European Central Bank.
The rich can certainly afford to pay more, but if governments increase taxes on the wealthy, they should do it with the aim of improving opportunities for all, rather than as a punitive measure to rectify an imagined wrong.

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