correct
make right or correct
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,837 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,825 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- make right or correct also: rectify, right Correct the mistakesrectify the calculation
- make reparations or amends for also: right, compensate, redress right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
- censure severely also: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
- adjust for also: compensate, counterbalance, make up, even out, even off, even up engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience also: discipline, sort out The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
- go down in value also: decline, slump the stock market correctedprices slumped
correct in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A thousand and eighty-six, to be correct.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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Otherwise, the rumoured reconstruction was quite correct.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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Although it was not yet nine o’clock, his morning toilet was irreproachably correct.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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If it has not encouraged it, has it done much to correct it?
The Novel and the Common School · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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Fuji was a Japanese pug, and rather correct, so Gissing was ashamed to do what he wanted to.
Where the Blue Begins · Christopher Morley · Chapter 1