- (v.t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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