rectified
rectified is the simple past and past participle of rectify.
Meaning of rectify
Verb
rectify (third-person singular simple present rectifies, present participle rectifying, simple past and past participle rectified)
- To heal (an organ or part of the body).
- To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
- to rectify the crisis
- To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
- To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
- To correct (someone who is mistaken).
- For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannot Rectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3
Phrases with rectified
Words that rhyme with rectified
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
Questions about rectified
- What is rectified the simple past and past participle of?
- Rectified is the simple past and past participle of rectify.
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