rectify
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/
Definition of rectify
10 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete, transitive)To heal (an organ or part of the body).
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verb
- (obsolete, transitive)To heal (an organ or part of the body).
- (transitive)To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
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(transitive)To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
“to rectify the crisis”
- (transitive)To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
- (transitive)To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
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(archaic, transitive)To correct (someone who is mistaken).
“For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannot Rectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities […]”
- (historical, transitive)To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
- (transitive)To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
- (transitive)To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
- (transitive)To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English rectifien, from Anglo-Norman rectifiier, rectefier (“to make straight”), from Medieval Latin rēctificō (“to make right”), from Latin rēctus (“straight”).
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