Rectify

Quick meaning: Rectify is a verb meaning (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.

Meaning

(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
2. (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
3. (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
4. (transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
5. (transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
6. (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).

Example Sentences

to rectify the crisis

For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannot Rectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities […]

Word Forms

• rectifies
• rectifying
• rectified

Synonyms for rectify

Depending on context, synonyms include remedy, amend.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remedy, amend, remedial, remediate, redress, repair.

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