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1. Having something undesirable neutralized
   "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20"

1. Make right or correct
   "Correct the mistakes";
   - rectify, right
    
2. Make reparations or amends for
   "correct a wrong done to the victims of the Holocaust";
   - right, compensate, redress
    
3. Censure severely
   "She corrected him for his insensitive remarks";
   - chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten
    
4. Adjust for
   "engineers will work to correct the effects of air resistance";
   - compensate, counterbalance, make up, even out, even off, even up
    
5. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
   "The teacher corrected the pupils rather frequently";
   - discipline, sort out
    
6. Fall in value
   "the stock market corrected";
   - decline, slump
    
7. Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
   "correct the alignment of the front wheels";
   - adjust, set
    
8. Treat a defect
   "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

See also: aplanatic, apochromatic, rectified

Type of: alter, balance, bawl out [informal], berate, call down [informal], call on the carpet [US, informal], care for, change, change by reversal, chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], chide, come down, descend, dress down [informal], equilibrate, equilibrise [Brit], equilibrize, fall, go down, have words, jaw [informal], lambast, lambaste, lecture, modify, penalise [Brit], penalize, punish, rag [informal], ream [N. Amer, informal], rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reverse, sanction, scold, sink, take to task, treat, trounce, turn, wig [Brit, informal]

Antonym: falsify, uncorrected

Encyclopedia: Correct, Indiana