Thesaurus: correct

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1. 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.
3. 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).
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
7. adj. socially right or correct
8. adj. in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
9. adj. correct in opinion or judgment
10. v. make right or correct
11. v. make reparations or amends for
12. v. censure severely