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Rectify

ˈrɛktɪfʌɪ

Rectify definitions

verb

Inflections:

rectifies rectifying rectified rectify

put right; correct

"mistakes made now cannot be rectified later"

Synonyms:
correct put/set/make right right put to rights sort out deal with amend revise remedy repair fix cure heal make good reform harmonize retrieve improve better ameliorate adjust resolve settle redress square
convert (alternating current) to direct current

"the current from the transformers is rectified by high-voltage diodes"
find a straight line equal in length to (a curve)

"his methods of rectifying the cycloid"
purify or refine (a substance) by repeated or continuous distillation

"butyl lactate was rectified, and the purified butyl lactate was sequentially hydrolysed"