correct

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. Source: opted

2. v. t. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. Source: opted

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). Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

6. adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth Source: wordnet

7. adj. socially right or correct Source: wordnet

8. adj. in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure Source: wordnet

9. adj. correct in opinion or judgment Source: wordnet

10. v. make right or correct Source: wordnet

11. v. make reparations or amends for Source: wordnet

12. v. censure severely Source: wordnet

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