Dictionary Entry
rectify
rectify is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
- 2transitive verb
To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
- 3transitive verb
To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
- 4verb
convert into direct current
"rectify alternating current"
- 5verb
make right or correct
"Correct the mistakes"
"rectify the calculation"
- 6verb
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"
"rectify the inequities in salaries"
- 7verb
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"
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- 8verb
reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
"refine sugar"
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- 9verb
math: determine the length of
"rectify a curve"
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