Rectifying can be categorized as a verb.
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| rectify - set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" | ||
| rectify - convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current" | ||
| rectify - math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve" | ||
| rectify - 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" | ||
| rectify - make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" | ||
| rectify - reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" |
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| 1. | verb | Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers. | |
| 2. | verb | At other times he taught her to play on the pipe, and as she began to breathe into it he snatched it from her, pressed the reeds to his lips and made them sound, under pretence of teaching her and rectifying her errors; but in reality his purpose was to kiss those parts of the instrument which her lips had touched, and thus the pipe became a conductor for his kisses. | |
| 3. | verb | Rectify the inequities in salaries. | |
| 4. | verb | Rectify alternating current. | |
| 5. | verb | Rectify a curve. | |
| 6. | verb | Rectify the calculation. | |
| 7. | verb | So how do you propose we rectify the situation at hand? | |
| 8. | verb | Sami had enough time to rectify things. | |
| 9. | verb | We need to take steps to rectify the situation. | |
| 10. | verb | The leader of the separatists will never be able to rectify his political blunders. | |
| 11. | verb | So how do you propose we rectify the situation at hand? | |
| 12. | verb | Sami had enough time to rectify things. | |
| 13. | verb | We need to take steps to rectify the situation. | |
| 14. | verb | The leader of the separatists will never be able to rectify his political blunders. |
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| Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers. | |
| At other times he taught her to play on the pipe, and as she began to breathe into it he snatched it from her, pressed the reeds to his lips and made them sound, under pretence of teaching her and rectifying her errors; but in reality his purpose was to kiss those parts of the instrument which her lips had touched, and thus the pipe became a conductor for his kisses. | |
| Rectify the inequities in salaries. |
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| Rectify alternating current. |
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| Rectify a curve. |
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| Rectify the calculation. |
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| So how do you propose we rectify the situation at hand? | |
| Sami had enough time to rectify things. | |
| We need to take steps to rectify the situation. | |
| The leader of the separatists will never be able to rectify his political blunders. | |
| So how do you propose we rectify the situation at hand? | |
| Sami had enough time to rectify things. | |
| We need to take steps to rectify the situation. | |
| The leader of the separatists will never be able to rectify his political blunders. | |