Synonyms for rectify
Most common
repair remedy amend mend correct adjust straighten straighten out
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Fix
fix, amend, mend, repair, remedy, ameliorate, redress, improve, compensate, restore, remediate, revamp, rehabilitate, renew
3. Reclaim
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- v. 2
To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
- v. 3
To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
- v. 4
To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
Related words
- Word family
- rectifiable rectification
Forms
- Past participle
- rectified
e.g. rectified → fixt, amended, mended, repaired…
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We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- repair After his knee repair, he could walk without pain.
- remedy Don't worry. We can remedy the mistake we've made.
- amend The Diet is likely to amend this unpopular law.
- mend The chance that Tom will mend his ways is minimal.
- correct I hope you will correct the situation immediately.
- adjust Tom tried to adjust the temperature of the shower.
By length
- 3 letters
- fix1
- 4 letters
- mend1
- 5 letters
- right1, renew2, amend2, emend
- 6 letters
- repair2, adjust2, remedy3, refine2, revamp2, purify3, distil2
- 7 letters
- improve2, correct2, restore2, reclaim2, redress2, distill2
- 8 letters
- regulate3, disabuse3
- 9 letters
- remediate4
- 10 letters
- compensate3, straighten2, regenerate4, ameliorate4
- 12 letters
- rehabilitate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (renew2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- rectifier
- Español
- rectificar
- Deutsch
- berichtigen
- Català
- rectificar