Definitions of correct
a. - Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views. 2
v. t. - To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. 2
v. t. - To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked). 2
v. t. - To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. 2
v. t. - To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations. 2
The word "correct" uses 7 letters: C C E O R R T.
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