Overview of verb correct

The verb correct has 8 senses

• correct, rectify, right -- (make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation")


• right, compensate, redress, correct -- (make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust")


• chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct -- (censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks")


• compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up -- (adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance")


• discipline, correct, sort out -- (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently")


• decline, slump, correct -- (go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped")


• adjust, set, correct -- (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels")


• correct -- (treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia")

Overview of adj corrected

The adj corrected has 1 sense

• corrected -- (having something undesirable neutralized; "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20")