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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"

1. Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
   "the correct version";
   - right
    
2. Having truthful opinions or making the right judgment
   "time proved him correct";
   - right
    
3. Socially appropriate or approved
   "correct behaviour";
   - right, done [Brit]
    
4. In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
   "what's the correct word for this?";
   - right

1. Make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
   - overcompensate

Derived forms: over-corrected, over-corrects, over-correcting

See also: accurate, correctness, exact, letter-perfect, precise, proper, right-minded, rightness, right-thinking, straight, true, word-perfect

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, incorrect, wrong

Encyclopedia: Correct, Indiana