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correct

English

  1. 🔊 free from error
    “the correct answer”
  2. 🔊 socially right or correct
    “it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye”
  3. 🔊 in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
    “what's the right word for this?”
  4. 🔊 correct in opinion or judgment
    “time proved him right”
  5. 🔊 treat a defect
    “The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia”
  6. 🔊 make right or correct
    “Correct the mistakes”
  7. 🔊 punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
    “The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently”
  8. 🔊 alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
    “Adjust the clock, please”
  9. 🔊 go down in value
    “the stock market corrected”
  10. 🔊 adjust for
    “engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance”
  11. 🔊 make reparations or amends for
    “right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”
  12. 🔊 censure severely
    “She chastised him for his insensitive remarks”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 corregir to correct
  2. 🔊 enmendar to correct
  3. 🔊 correcto correct, right
  4. 🔊 acertado correct, accurate
  5. 🔊 derecho correct, appropriate, right

Similar words

rectify right adjust set chastise castigate objurgate chasten decline slump right compensate redress discipline sort out compensate counterbalance make up even out even off even up right right right