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rectify
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rectify as in:  rectify the error

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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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    His Levitation Charm was certainly much better than Malfoy's had been, though he wished he had not mixed up the incantations for Colour Change and Growth Charms, so that the rat he was supposed to be turning orange swelled shockingly and was the size of a badger before Harry could rectify his mistake.  (source)
    rectify = fix
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    We need to rectify this situation before you start suffering from delusions of grandeur.  (source)
    rectify = correct or fix
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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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    At any rate, the situation has been rectified.  (source)
    rectified = fixed or 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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    "Rectifying science with religion has been my father's life dream," Vittoria said.  (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)
    rectifier = someone who corrects or fixes something
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    And climbing wind along this mountain-steep, Which rectifies in you whate'er the world Made crooked and deprav'd.  (source)
    rectifies = fixes or makes right
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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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    If I did you harm, I'm here to rectify it.  (source)
    rectify = fix or make right
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    Nationwide, we've had only three abductions, total, and all were rectified within minutes, given our ability to track the location of the participating children.  (source)
    rectified = 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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