Sample Sentences for
rectify
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rectify as in:  rectify the error

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    The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify.  (source)
    rectify = correct
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    If I did you harm, I'm here to rectify it.  (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
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    "Well, for God's sake, I hope you managed to rectify that a bit."  (source)
    rectify = correct, fix, or make right
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    We hope we can rectify this mistake on someone's part by saying that Louis Zamperini is alive and well as a prisoner of war here in Tokyo.  (source)
    rectify = correct
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    I always believed any sin was easily rectified if only you let Jesus Christ into your heart, but here it gets complicated.  (source)
    rectified = made right
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    But as you propose to establish a private institution, you will, I trust, incur fewer difficulties of this nature, and will suffer less from the irritating political interference that frequently prevents their rectification; and in this, as in general matters, I wish you every success in your endeavours.  (source)
    rectification = correction
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    In truth, the insults caused him no pain, and he was not concerned with rectifying the unjust accusations that could have been worse, considering Fermina Daza's character and the gravity of the cause.  (source)
    rectifying = correcting
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    My brother said its possible if you have an antenna and a rectifier and something to serve as a speaker.†  (source)
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    This narrative provoked some rectifications on the part of the prince, who, as he said, pretended to know something about that matter; and having satisfied himself that Newman was in no laughing mood, either with regard to the size of his head or anything else, he entered into the controversy with an animation for which the duchess, when she set him down as a bore, could not have been prepared.†  (source)
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    And so I chose my specialty to even out the odds for people like Thalia, to rectify, with each slice of my scalpel, an arbitrary injustice, to make a small stand against a world order I found disgraceful, one in which a dog bite could rob a little girl of her future, make her an outcast, an object of scorn.  (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
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    At any rate, the situation has been rectified.  (source)
    rectified = fixed or made right
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    He has done it the hard way and continues to do it the hard way--by reason, by choosing, by error and rectification, by the difficult, slow method in which the dignity of A is acknowledged by B, without impairing the dignity of C. Man cannot have dignity without loving the dignity of his fellow.  (source)
    rectification = correction
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    That he seemed to be simply working on the project, rectifying Ben's mistakes without frustration or anger, made her feel a burst of gratitude and affection toward him.  (source)
    rectifying = correcting, fixing, or making right
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