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Verb rectify has 6 senses
- rectify - math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve"
--1 is one way to determine, find, find out, ascertain
Sample sentence:
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- refine, rectify - reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
--2 is one way to purify, sublimate, make pure, distill
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- reform, reclaim, regenerate, 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"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
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- rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend - set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
--4 is one way to correct, rectify, right
Sample sentences:
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- correct, rectify, right - make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
--5 is one way to change by reversal, turn, reverse
Sample sentences:
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- rectify - convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"
--6 is one way to change, exchange, commute, convert
Sample sentence:
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