verb
- Make right or correct.
- usage: "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
- Make reparations or amends for.
- usage: "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- synonyms: right, compensate, redress, correct
- Censure severely.
- usage: "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
- Adjust for.
- usage: "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
- synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
- Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.
- usage: "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
- synonyms: discipline, correct, sort out
- Go down in value.
- usage: "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
- Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.
- usage: "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
- Treat a defect.
- usage: "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
- synonyms: correct
adjective
- Having something undesirable neutralized.
- usage: "with glasses her corrected vision was 20: 20"